Merkel honours Danish Muhammad cartoonist Westergaard
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad caused anger in 2006: "Europe is a place where a cartoonist is allowed to draw something like this," she said at a ceremony in Potsdam.
READ MORE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11236158
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, Germany
The SPEECH Act Should Not Pre-empt State Law
Monday, 9 August 2010
Daniel Huff of the Legal Project at Middle East Forum writes that Congress can simply add a provision explicitly stating the recently passed bill on freedom of speech should not pre-empt any state law that provides greater protection to free speech.
READ MORE: http://www.legal-project.org/745/the-speech-act-should-not-pre-empt-state-law
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, United States
Emerson on CNN discussing Al Qaeda's New Magazine
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
US terror expert Steve Emerson discusses the new terror magazine, "Inspire": the first issue of the magazine threatened Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris and others with death, claiming "the dust will never settle down": Emerson says the arrow is going upwards in terms of plots carried out here in the United States or in other countries against US targets, basically carried out by Americans or Western English speaking young Muslims who have radicalized.
READ MORE: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2069/emerson-on-cnn-discussing-al-qaedas-new-magazine
TAGS: Analysis, Freedom of Speech, United States
As US moves to stop libel tourism reform in the UK seems a long way off
Friday, 16 July 2010
As the United States moves to stop libel tourism, libel reform in the UK seems a long way off, presenting continuing legal risks to US authors such as Rachel Ehrenfeld who write about Islamic extremism.
READ MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/16/us-senate-libel-tourism-reform-uk
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, United Kingdom
Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki puts 'Everybody Draw Mohammed' cartoonist Molly Norris on execution hitlist
Sunday, 11 July 2010
A charismatic Islamist terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day" on an execution hit list: Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki - the radical who has also been cited as inspiring the Fort Hood (Texas) massacre and the plot by two New Jersey men to kill US soldiers - singled out artist Molly Norris as a "prime target," saying her "proper abode is hellfire" and "the medicine prescribed by the Messenger of Allah is the execution of those involved": FBI officials have notified Norris and warned her they consider it a "very serious threat".
READ MORE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/07/11/2010-07-11_cleric_anwar_alawlaki_puts_everybody_draw_mohammed_cartoonist_molly_norris_on_ex.html#ixzz0tZWnKxGf
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, United States
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