1. Isn't it easy to avoid the hate speech by avoiding the calumny of all Muslims and just report the facts? 2. What defense do you have for such race/religion/ethnic slurs? 3. Truth is what here - that all Muslims do in fact engage in honor killings? Or that just Muslims do? Or that there is something special about Islam that makes this happen? Or what? 4. The defense of reasonable interpretation of the remarks or generous interpretation (treating his remarks as if he really weren't slandering all Muslims and pushing race-hatred) could easily be made a defense. 5. Should we eliminate laws any time there is overzealous enforcement of them? 6. Abraham Lincoln: "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
that's pretty much what I think of it. what is your defense of such hate mongering? Steve On Jan 13, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Volokh, Eugene wrote: > Jesper Langballe apparently wrote, “Of course Lars Hedegaard shouldn’t have > said that there are Muslim fathers who rape their daughters when the truth > instead seems to be that they make do with killing daughters (so-called > honour killings) –- and moreover turn a blind eye to rapes by uncles.” He > was therefore prosecuted under a Danish law that provides, “Whoever publicly > ... issues a ... communication by which a group of persons are threatened, > insulted or denigrated due to their race, skin colour, national or ethnic > origin, religion or sexual orientation is liable to a fine or incarceration > for up to two years.” Because the law does not allow truth as a defense, he > pleaded guilty; you can read his statement here. This happened last month, > but I just learned of it, and thought it important to note it. > > The person about whose statement Langballe was speaking — Lars Hedegaard, > president of the Danish Free Press Society — “is facing criminal trial > [scheduled to start Jan. 24, 2011] followed by a libel suit.” According to an > opinion piece in The Spectator, “[Hedegaard] stated about Muslim ‘honour’ > violence within families: ‘They rape their own children.’ In vain did > Hedegaard explain the following day that obviously he had not meant by this > that all Muslims engage in such practices, any more than saying ‘Americans > make good films’ means that all Americans make good films; in vain did he > adduce copious evidence of concern — including from Muslim victims themselves > — about the amount of sexual and ‘honour’ violence, including rape and > incest, within Muslim families.” > > I was wondering what those who support European-style “hate speech” laws > think about this. > > Eugene > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; > people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) > forward the messages to others. -- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Associate Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice http://iipsj.org Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 http://iipsj.com/SDJ/ "A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment." Albert Einstein
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