A 22-YEAR-OLD with a history of violence has been named by police as the suspect behind the Danish shooting rampage that left two dead and several more wounded.

CARNAGE: The terrorist's shooting spree began after an attack on a cafe hosting a free speech event [REUTERS]

Omar El-Hussein had a criminal record which included convictions for weapon offences.

He was gunned down by police close to a Copenhagen train station in the early hours of Sunday morning after he opened fire on them.

Police believe he was responsible for attacks on a cafe and a deadly assault on a synagogue.

His killing spree is believed to have been inspired by the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in France last month.

Danish investigators currently do not suspect El-Hussein had visited any overseas jihadist training camps.

Investigator Joergen Skov said no one else was involved in the two attacks in which one man was shot in the head near a synagogue and another killed at a freedom of speech event.

TRIBUTE: Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt places flowers in front of the synagogue in Krystalgade in Copenhagen [REUTERS]

SUSPECT: Omar El-Hussein has been named as the suspect behind the shootings [TWITTER]

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THE debate on free speech and its limits is thousands of years old, and different societies through the ages have taken very different positions.

Political power, religious authority and economic ideas can all be threatened by free speech.

For many people, that makes free speech not only an important principle, but an absolute one.

But free speech can also threaten our individual wellbeing, our lives or even our whole society, when those speaking incite others to act against us.

This tension will always exist, and the debate about free speech and its limits will keep resurfacing, never being resolved and always needing to be redefined.

We're currently being forced to consider these issues again following the violence in Copenhagen and Paris, perpetrated by people unwilling to accept that free speech includes the freedom to criticise or mock their religion.

The responses have been both defiant and creative, with the pencil becoming a symbol of free speech.

But it's not so long since our own laws came down on the other side of this debate.

It's less than a decade since blasphemy, which originally carried the death penalty, was repealed in England and Wales, something which has never been done in Scotland.

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Some users are finding fault with Reddits failure to protect absolute free speech.

Reddit, the long-time haven of weirdos, perverts and miscreants the internet over, has been, from its beginning, the mainstream bulwark for free speech online.

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But in a strange twist that perfectly illustrates the current culturewide debate around online speech, a group of disgruntled users have begun an exodus off the site - claiming, against all odds, that Reddit is censoring them as a matter of corporate policy.

This is, for the record, the same Reddit that defended Violentacrez, the Texas man who ran forums on beating women and sexualising underage girls. The Reddit that allowed rampant speculation about the Boston bombing, even when it became dangerous. The Reddit that, just this past fall, supported a booming trade in stolen celebrity nude photos, and still, even now, hosts a variety of racist, misogynistic, homophobic and otherwise "NSFL" content that I dare not link to from here.

If this isn't enough free speech, what is?

To understand that question (let alone the answer to it), you have to start with a working knowledge of Reddit's labyrinthine depths. The site is, for the uninitiated, basically a social news service divided into tens of thousands of themed forums, called subreddits. Users submit links, photos and in-jokes to the forums, which are voted up or down by other users. The forums themselves are run by volunteer moderators, or mods, who can basically make and enforce rules as they see fit. In general, corporate Reddit - Advance Media-owned Reddit, US$50-million-funding-round Reddit, only-35-employees Reddit - doesn't step in unless the company is at risk of being sued.

The core philosophy, co-founder Alexis Ohanian explained in a book on Reddit's early days, was "giving the people what they want." Whatever they want. Accordingly, each forum looks a little different. In r/aww - one of my personal favourites - mods ban slurs, harassing comments and anything "sad." In r/thefappening, where users shared the celebrity nudes that ruled September's news cycle, slurs and harassing comments were basically the norm. (And that was, on its own, pretty sad.)

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Phil Robertson, conservative and outspoken patriarch of Duck Dynasty fame, will be rewarded for standing by his faith and comments about the LGBT community.

The star of the hit A&E show will be given the Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award for free speech.

Phil Robertson will be given the honor at this years Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

CPAC is one of the biggest conservative political events of the year.

Phil Robertson will join last years recipient, author and conservative talk show host Mark Levin.

Phil Robertson made huge waves over a year ago when he made comments about the LGBT community that were seen as exceedingly controversial.

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A&E indefinitely suspended Phil Robertson from his own show, but reinstated him after a severe backlash from the shows main fanbase, politcal conservatives.

After the controvery took its toll on fans and offendees, Phil Robertson still stood behind his beliefs on the matter.

Citizens United president David Bossie said, Even when the entire mainstream media demanded he disavow his beliefs and attempted to have him fired from his own hit show for expressing these beliefs, he stood firm in his faith.

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Gunmen were on the loose after one person was shot dead in a cafe hosting a free speech forum, and another was killed near a synagogue. CBS2 #39;s Cindy Hsu reports. Official Site: http://newyork.cbs...

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The suspected gunman killed by police after shooting attacks against a free speech event and outside a Copenhagen synagogue was 22 years old and had a background in criminal gangs, police said.

A Danish film maker attending a panel discussion on blasphemy was killed in the shooting Saturday at the free speech event and a member of the Scandinavian country's Jewish community was killed outside the synagogue.

Five police officers were also wounded in the shootings.

Police believe the suspect carried out both shootings alone but were investigating whether he had received help from others.

"Denmark has been hit by terror," Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said. "We do not know the motive for the alleged perpetrator's actions, but we know that there are forces that want to hurt Denmark. They want to rebuke our freedom of speech."

Jens Madsen, head of the Danish intelligence agency PET, said investigators believe the gunman was inspired by Islamic radicalism.

"PET is working on a theory that the perpetrator could have been inspired by the events in Paris. He could also have been inspired by material sent out by (the Islamic State group) and others," Madsen said.

Islamic radicals carried out a massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newsroom in Paris last month, followed by an attack on Jews at a kosher grocery store, taking the lives of 17 victims.

Earlier Sunday, at least two people with handcuffs were taken out by police from an Internet cafe in Copenhagen, Danish media reported.

Police spokesman Steen Hansen told The Associated Press that "the action was part of the police investigation" but declined to give further details.

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