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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Free speech is not absolute![/quote]

Says who?  You?[/quote]

Freedom of speech is not absolute. The mere fact that there are slander and libel laws is a testament to this. The press is not free to publish the plans for a nuclear bomb. Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks ring a bell?  The US government has been allowed to limit speech for many, many reasons, because the Supreme Court has recognised that in some cases the harm speech causes can outweigh its value for freedom of speech purposes.[/quote]

[b]And such exceptions are very, very limited.[/b]  As the Muslim mayor of Rotterdam recently said, it Muslims in the West are going to be so troubled about a satirical cartoon or magazine, then maybe they should consider living instead in a society where freedom of speech is not a respected value.[/quote]

Limited they may be ..... but the point made by PP is that it is not absolute. If one deems certain restrictions as appropriate where does one draw the line? Why would one publish material that some consider to be so offensive that it would incite people to violence?[/quote]

None of the cartoons were so offensive that they would incite reasonable people to violence.  The two murderers were not reasonable.  You don't create standards based upon what violent religious extremists might do, you base standards upon reasonable people.[/quote]

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