Charlie Hebdo

Word of the week: offend

Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto under creative commons licence Where is the line between the right to free expression and the responsibility to respect others? There’s a debate going on now about whether media outlets should republish the cartoons from Charlie Hebdo that enraged three men in France enough to kill 25 people at the magazine and […]

Charlie Hebdo: On the front lines in the war on freedom of expression

There is a world-wide, religious war going on right now, even though Western, democratic and governmental leaders don’t want to admit it.   It’s not a war prosecuted by all Muslims, not by any stretch. But it is a war, a campaign against freedoms the West purports to stand for: freedom of thought, freedom of […]