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Video: CAIR-LA Director Says Free Speech is the Answer to New Charlie Hebdo Cartoon
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Church of England removing vicars right to free speech?
Watch the full episode here: http://bit.ly/GU173 Reverend Stephen Sizer was banned from using social media by the Church of England on Monday, over a Facebook link to an article questioning...

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French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, center, gestures as he exits the courtroom after his trial in Paris last Wednesday. He was ordered to pay $37,000 for condoning terrorism. His lawyer argues he was denied the same freedom of expression that the satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo received. Ian Langsdon/EPA/Landov hide caption

French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, center, gestures as he exits the courtroom after his trial in Paris last Wednesday. He was ordered to pay $37,000 for condoning terrorism. His lawyer argues he was denied the same freedom of expression that the satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo received.

When terrorists attacked a satirical magazine in Paris last month, killing eight journalists, millions took to the streets in support of free speech. They waved pencils and carried signs in solidarity with the magazine Charlie Hebdo.

But in the weeks since those attacks, scores have also been arrested for condoning terrorism and inciting racial and religious hatred. Many now wonder if the government's crackdown on hate speech is compromising free speech.

One of those arrested in the wake of the attacks was controversial stand-up comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'bala. Last Wednesday, a judge ordered him to pay the equivalent of a $37,000 fine for condoning terrorism.

The comic has faced prosecution many times in the past for his crude, anti-Semitic jokes. This time it was for posting "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly" on his Facebook page. The judge said Dieudonne's remark was clear support for Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed a police officer and four people in a kosher grocery store.

Dieudonne's lawyer Jacques Verdier says his client is consistently denied the same freedom of expression that magazine Charlie Hebdo is granted.

"Dieudonne is constantly hounded and harassed, which is why he said he feels like a terrorist," says Verdier.

In France, as in the United States, people are free to express their opinions. But in France that freedom of speech ends at insulting others based on their race, religion or sex.

"Hate speech laws were inspired by the horrors of the Second World War, and in particular the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews," says Christopher Mesnooh, an American attorney who practices law in France.

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The French Debate: Free Speech Versus Hate Speech

Written by Zachary Jernigan February 11th, 2015

Free speech is a contentious issue, especially when youve invited a dozen people to speak their minds about it.

Andrea Houchard, director of Northern Arizona University College of Arts & Letters Philosophy in the Public Interest program, stood before the twelve attendees in Sedona Public Librarys Si Birch Community Room on Friday, Feb. 6.

She outlined the rules for conduct as well as the oddity of having rules when participating in the evenings Hot Topics Cafe, titled What Shouldnt We Say? The Limits of Free Speech.

This particular topic is interesting to us, she said. Free speech, she added, is about expressing oneself without needing to restrict ones tone or content. Yet, she added, We ask people to be civil when discussing the topic.

Houchard introduced the evenings discussion leader, NAU Department of Philosophy Professor Jeff Downard.

The reason were here is to try ideas out, he said.

To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Feb. 11, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News.

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Terry Jermy, Labour leader on Breckland Council

By Andrew Fitchett Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:27 PM

A councillor has been accused of stifling free speech after he made a complaint against a counterparts use of social media.

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Mark Robinson, Conservative Breckland councillor for Saxon Ward in Thetford, filed a complaint against Labours Terry Jermy before Christmas after the latter tweeted that Mr Robinson had a poor attendance record at community meetings. Breckland Council cleared Mr Jermy of the complaint in January.

The tweet was made after a meeting of the Barnham Cross Action Group on November 17 which Mr Robinson failed to attend.

In his response to the complaint, Mr Jermy not only denied the claim, but said Mr Robinsons attendance record was poor and that he found the complaint ironic after Mr Robinson had tweeted similar comments regarding opposition councillors attendance.

Mr Jermy said this week that his Breckland colleague was stifling free speech with the complaint.

Its the sort of thing you would expect from a dictatorship, not in a democratic society, he said.

He added: Residents at that meeting have raised the fact that one of their councillors is a regular no-show at meetings and one of my responsibilities is to highlight that fact.

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A STUDY of free speech in universities in the UK has placed Worcester in the top 20 per cent in the country.

The survey by online magazine Spiked looked at policies and actions at all 115 universities in the country and their associated student unions, ranking them with a traffic light system according to how much they were seen to restrict free speech and expression.

The University of Worcester was one of only 23 in the UK ranked green, meaning both the institution and its student union was seen to foster an environment allowing free speech. The only concern raised in the study was the universitys harassment and bullying policy, which bans conduct considered patronising or belittling, including display of materials with sexual images and/or words and ridiculing or demeaning someone in public or private, but this was considered relatively minor.

The universitys vice chancellor Professor David Green described freedom of expression as a fundamental liberty and said the institution was committed to following the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted in 1948.

In the year in which we celebrate the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta, it is more important than ever to uphold this principle and to promote, protect and preserve all other fundamental human liberties including the rights to Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, he said.

The disregard of human rights has led and is leading to the most barbarous crimes against individuals and humanity.

At the university we are proud and delighted to contribute to the worldwide movement for liberty, human dignity and human rights.

The study was prompted by a series of incidents in which speeches and other events at universities were cancelled as a result of objections by students, the widespread banning of the controversial Robin Thicke song Blurred Lines following concerns it trivialised rape and questions over anti-bullying policies seen as overly restrictive.

The report ranked 47 universities, or 41 per cent of all those in the UK, as red, including those in Aston, Coventry, Gloucestershire and Staffordshire.

Bath, Cambridge, Nottingham and Wolverhampton were among the 45, or 39 per cent, ranked amber, while the remaining 23, including York, Bolton, and Sunderland, were rated green.

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