Who gets to say what about religion? When does free speech verge into something more insidious — insult, offense, even…
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
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Complicating hate speech matters
Though the very term Islamophobia remains highly contested in Norway, the reluctance to define anti-Muslim speech as a form of…
Africa and free/hate speech
In the era of post-truth, alternative facts, and fake news, hate, hateful, inflammatory, and dangerous speech pervade the African continent…
Freedom’s fascists: Hate speech and the new European far right
Far right parties have metamorphisized: they are now anti-Islamic rather than anti-Semitic; as populist parties they rely on mass mobilization…
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief…
Islamophobia and terror in Norway
At openDemocracy, Sindre Bangstad writes on the domestic conditions in which Anders Behring Breivik concocted and attempted to justify his…
U. of I. to renew controversial adjunct professor’s contract
The AP reports that Dr. Kenneth Howell, the recently scandalized adjunct instructor of religion at the University of Illinois, has…
Religious cartoons: freedom of speech as well as religion
In a post at Religion Dispatches last month, Austin Dacey argues vehemently that religious satire is nothing new. Before the…
South Park’s politics of religion
Long known for lambasting religious groups and celebrities alike (Scientology, thus, being one of the producers' favorite targets), South Park, the…