Freedom of Expression and Muslims: A Critical Discussion
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Many commentators showed the courage to ______ the magazine's editorial policy of exclusively maligning Islam and Muslims.

critique

Islamophobic analysts would have jumped to the conclusion that the followers of Islam are ______ anti-freedom of expression.

pathologically

The slogan of free speech is actually an excuse for ______ to denigrate Islam and to caricature its adherents.

free license

The ______ of hypocrisy and double standard in the discourse of free speech is a crying need and long overdue.

<p>dismantling</p> Signup and view all the answers

If an Islamic scholar of Lessing's stature took such an ______ intellectual stance, the repercussion and media outcry would be significant.

<p>unconventional</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the wake of the recent Charlie Hebdo ______, many commentators showed the courage to critique the magazine's editorial policy.

<p>tragedy</p> Signup and view all the answers

While Muslim societies are maligned for a perceived lack of ______ of expression, Muslims do not have equal right to freedom of expression.

<p>freedom</p> Signup and view all the answers

Prominent scholars who are opposed to laws against ______ denial include many prominent western nonMuslim academics and commentators.

<p>Holocaust</p> Signup and view all the answers

However, if the list of prominent commentators against the laws against Holocaust denial included eminent ______ scholars, the reaction of Western establishments and mainstream, dominant media would have been understandably different.

<p>Islamic</p> Signup and view all the answers

Soon after the tragic fall of the ______ Towers in New York in 2001, the British writer and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing made a characteristically iconoclastic statement.

<p>Twin</p> Signup and view all the answers

She refused to toe the line with Western political and media ______ and exercised her right to take a divergent view.

<p>establishments</p> Signup and view all the answers

The following discussion may clarify this ______ more.

<p>hypocrisy</p> Signup and view all the answers

Imams in masjids in the West are under constant ______ and sometimes secret agents monitor especially the content of their khutbahs (Friday sermons).

<p>surveillance</p> Signup and view all the answers

Recently, Russia has banned Ali Muhammed al-Salabi’s book Abu Bakr Siddique, the First ______.

<p>Caliph</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the last one decade or so, the country’s Justice Ministry has blacklisted over two thousand titles including a number of classical Islamic ______.

<p>books</p> Signup and view all the answers

The above deliberation shows that free speech restrictions are not a Muslim monopoly, as they exist in many non-Muslim countries on ______.

<p>earth</p> Signup and view all the answers

Classical British scholars who intellectually fought against censorship and promoted freedom of expression do not support unbounded or irresponsible exercise of free ______.

<p>speech</p> Signup and view all the answers

Whether freedom of expression should be absolute or there should be some sort of cap on its exercise has generated lively discussion over ______.

<p>time</p> Signup and view all the answers

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