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Defending the Right to Blaspheme

Nothing Should Be Immune from Criticism

Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
Ronald A. Lindsay

Without free expression, the other rights we revere stand on quicksand. Religious ideas and leaders must be as subject as any others to criticism and even satire.

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Defending the Right to Blaspheme

The Harms of Blasphemy Laws

Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
Elizabeth K. Cassidy

Blasphemy laws threaten religious freedom in many countries; the situation is most severe in Pakistan.

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Defending the Right to Blaspheme

The Importance of Being Blasphemous

Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
Stephen R. Welch
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Looking back on the Satanic Verses affair from the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it is clear that Western culture has hemorrhaged away its courage.

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Defending the Right to Blaspheme

Taslima Nasrin: The Point of Inquiry Interview

Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015

Banglaesh’s best-known critic of all religions reflects on her new exile.

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