Islam and Free Speech: OIC vs. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Michael Curtis
Stonegate Institute
February 8, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2157/islam-and-free-speech-oic-vs-universal

Excerpt:

One of the important early contributions of James Madison to American life was his impact on the framing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1776. One section stated that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience." Another declared that "any citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right." The Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution went even further with the provision that Congress should make no law "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or abridge the freedom of speech or of the press.

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