"Freedom of Blasphemy"

The Toronto Sun's Brodie Fenlon interviewed myself, Kate Macmillan and Kathy Shaidle yesterday about the Mohammed cartoons controversy. The resulting story is here.

You may be wondering what I meant by "freedom of blasphemy". It means that in a secular country, you have the right to state opinions or issue works of art, including political cartoons, that followers of certain religious faiths will find blasphemous. (Perhaps "freedom to blaspheme" would have been a better way to put it.) As for the protests being a "big scam", I mean that these cartoons are old news - reprinted in the Egyptian media months ago, for crying out loud - which have been stirred up by radical groups who want to see how much we can be bullied. The answer, sadly, is that we're being bullied quite easily.

Fenlon and I had a lengthy, interesting chat, and it's too bad more of it didn't make it into the paper. His has more on his own weblog.

Posted by damian at February 10, 2006 09:14 AM | TrackBack