Guest post by award-winning, bestselling author Samreen Ahsan Our world is trending on controversial hashtags these days: be it #JeSuisCharlie, #PeshawarAttack or #IWillRideWithYou. We all have our own opinions and thoughts—but what exactly does “freedom of speech” mean? Is it having the right to express an opinion on something that you observe or read, […]
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 […]
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 […]