Saturday, February 18, 2006
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
And so the debate continues. In my readings of the ongoing debates in the highly electric political climate that we find ourselves in, I came across this woman, Ayaan Hirsi AliI'm intruiged to know what people think, both of her and the following statement she released very recently. She had this to say:
The Right to Offend
I am here to defend the right to offend.
It is my conviction that the vulnerable enterprise called democracy cannot exist without free expression, particularly in the media. Journalists must not forgo the obligation of free speech, which people in other hemispheres are denied.
I am of the opinion that it was correct to publish the cartoons of Muhammad in Jyllands Posten and it was right to re-publish them in other papers across Europe.
click on the document to read on....
letmerepose.rtf
