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No More Apologies
by Jacob Mchangama
National Review Online
September 21, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/3171/no-more-apologies
Excerpt:
How should a liberal democracy react to violent outrage over private citizens' purported denigration of Islam? That question has preoccupied Western governments since Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie, the British author of The Satanic Verses, in 1989. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed in 2005 reignited the issue, and the recent anti-American riots in Muslim-majority countries are but the latest example of this recurring phenomenon.
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