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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.
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If an Islamic scholar of Lessing's stature took such an ______ intellectual stance, the repercussion and media outcry would be significant.
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In the wake of the recent Charlie Hebdo ______, many commentators showed the courage to critique the magazine's editorial policy.
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While Muslim societies are maligned for a perceived lack of ______ of expression, Muslims do not have equal right to freedom of expression.
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Prominent scholars who are opposed to laws against ______ denial include many prominent western nonMuslim academics and commentators.
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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.
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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.
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She refused to toe the line with Western political and media ______ and exercised her right to take a divergent view.
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The following discussion may clarify this ______ more.
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Imams in masjids in the West are under constant ______ and sometimes secret agents monitor especially the content of their khutbahs (Friday sermons).
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Recently, Russia has banned Ali Muhammed al-Salabi’s book Abu Bakr Siddique, the First ______.
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In the last one decade or so, the country’s Justice Ministry has blacklisted over two thousand titles including a number of classical Islamic ______.
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The above deliberation shows that free speech restrictions are not a Muslim monopoly, as they exist in many non-Muslim countries on ______.
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Classical British scholars who intellectually fought against censorship and promoted freedom of expression do not support unbounded or irresponsible exercise of free ______.
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Whether freedom of expression should be absolute or there should be some sort of cap on its exercise has generated lively discussion over ______.
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