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Free speech is the only answer to bigotry
by Shashank Joshi
The Telegraph (UK)
September 25, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/3221/free-speech-is-the-only-answer-to-bigotry
Excerpt:
'I announce today that this blasphemer who has abused the Holy Prophet, if somebody will kill him, I will give that person a prize of $100,000" – the words of which extremist? Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri? An Iranian cleric, hankering after the days of the Rushdie fatwa?
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