Shut up or die
The West (via) reports that Perth academic, Samina Yasmeen has resorted to weasel threats to call on religious and community leaders to stop speaking about Islamic icons to avoid causing offence.
She said the Pope and other religious leaders had the same responsibility as Islamic clerics to avoid encouraging violence by followers.
She goes on to claim that previous emotive reactions, such as the violence following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons and Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, should have warned people not to criticise Islam.
“I am not supportive of people killing and blowing things up, but people need to start looking at selfcensorship,” she said.
Self-censorship is still censorship and suggesting that people should curb their opinions because of “other” violent people is still a threat.
Saturday 23 Sep 2006 | Paul | Australia
