OFF: Freeedom of Speech
M Holmes
fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Sat Feb 18 12:53:04 EST 2006
Alastair Sumner writes:
> Anyone noticed how BBC Group-Think has started to call Mohammed...The
> Prophet Mohammed? As if they would ever call Jesus...The Lord Jesus.
> Too much deference towards an ethnic or religious group often strikes
> me as being an inverted form of racism prompted by fear. That's the
> legacy of Political Correctness and Multiculturalism in the UK today.
Could be. I'm now considering getting a t-shirt done with one of the
cartoons on it and "Free Speech!" underneath. I figure either that one
with the eyes joke or the one where the artist is drawing Mohammed in
the dark...
Anyway, the Sunday Times (obLeftie: gutter Murdoch Press) had quite a
good article last week about how Islam is being used for cover to
prevent dissent with what are political views:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2036284,00.html
FoFP
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