Human rights debate
Did publishing “The Future Belongs to Islam” and the Muhammad cartoons violate human rights? Each incident resulted in complaints to human rights commissions (the latter having recently been retracted). The reaction from CAJ and two columns in The Gazette offer context and differing viewpoints. More in the Freedom of Expression J-Topic.
Did publishing “The Future Belongs to Islam” and the Muhammad cartoons violate human rights? Each incident resulted in complaints to human rights commissions (the latter having recently been retracted). The reaction from CAJ and two columns in The Gazette offer context and differing viewpoints. More in the Freedom of Expression J-Topic.
[node:ad]Patricia W. Elliott is a magazine journalist and assistant professor at the School of Journalism, University of Regina. You can visit her at patriciaelliott.ca.
March 3, 2008
Surely the question for the
Surely the question for the CAJ and others is why this becomes an issue when it is Muslim organizations who complain about what is published, yet it wasn’t when it was Jewish and Gay communities who filed similar complaints.