Freedom of art is not the freedom to stir up hatred against a
people because of their religion or nationality or sex, etc.
-F
gotcha also cause drawing is now some 'populist' art, i mean art for the
hoi polloi then its leonardo of carnival fartmen michelangelo are out of
any protection
The responses of Ronda Hauben and Florian Cramer essentially recapitulate that
of
the Vatican, which released an unsigned statement that The freedom of thought
and
expression, confirmed in the Declaration of Human Rights, can not include the
right to offend religious feelings of the faithful.
There are three issues that need to be addressed when discussing this
matter which is generally neglected
1. Christians criticizing Christianity is one thing, Christians
criticizing, Jews, Muslims, Gypsies is another. Europe had learnt that
with one of the hardest lessons of the history.
2. The
Am Donnerstag, 09. Februar 2006 um 14:27:51 Uhr (-0800) schrieb Ayhan Aytes:
No I mean the violence in its literal sense, in this case through
cultural means of political oppression of minorities. We should remember
that Muslims in Denmark are minorities. The Atheist response to
Christian
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.
- 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard
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Am Sonntag, 05. Februar 2006 um 13:14:28 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Ronda Hauben:
Whatever the reason for the republication and defense of the cartoons,
in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, newspapers which republish them in the
name of freedom of speech or freedom of the press are seriously