Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of several cartoons of the supposed Prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (see also our latest image of the week). I spoke with Danish free speech activist and author of Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media (2022) Jacob Mchangama about that controversy and the conflict between Islam and free speech over the past few decades. Among other things, we also discussed the murder of Charlie Kirk and the state of free speech in Trump’s America.
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Convicted for blasphemy in modern Britain: an interview with Hamit Coskun, by Daniel James Sharp
Coskun’s conviction is a surrender to Islamic blasphemy codes, by Stephen Evans
Blasphemy Laws 2.0: The conviction of Hamit Coskun, by Noel Yaxley
The burning question: are blasphemy laws back? by Stephen Evans
Image of the week: Hamit Coskun, victim of a new form of blasphemy law? by Daniel James Sharp
Kant vs Tahir Ali: why desecration should not be outlawed, by Daniel Herbert
Three years on, the lessons of Batley are yet to be learned, by Jack Rivington
What the Muslim world can learn from Tunisia, by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
The power of outrage, by Tehreem Azeem
Salwan Momika and the right to burn books, by Noel Yaxley
The perils of dropping a book, by Noel Yaxley
The need to rekindle irreverence for Islam in Muslim thought, by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
The Galileo of Pakistan? Interview with Professor Sher Ali, by Ehtesham Hassan
10 years since the Charlie Hebdo attack: a message from the Freethinker, by Daniel James Sharp
Charlie Hebdo: An open letter to the free world from a freethinker, by Khadija Khan
Storm over a tea-cup? The ‘Mug-Gate’ teacher speaks out, by Matt Lovell
Image of the week: ‘Moses Getting a Back View’ (1882), by Daniel James Sharp
Britain’s blasphemy heritage, by David Nash
Secularism and the struggle for free speech, by Stephen Evans
Britain’s liberal imam: Interview with Taj Hargey, by Emma Park
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, by Fariborz Pooya
Donald Trump, political violence, and the future of America, by Daniel James Sharp
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