Just say no to blasphemy laws

by Jonathan Turley
USA Today
October 19, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/544

Excerpt:

Perhaps in an effort to rehabilitate the United States' image in the Muslim world, the Obama administration has joined a U.N. effort to restrict religious speech. This country should never sacrifice freedom of expression on the altar of religion.

Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached theUnited Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to pass an international blasphemy law. It came from the most unlikely of places: the United States.

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