{"id":7831,"date":"2012-09-26T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T22:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2012-09-26T22:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T22:54:57","slug":"erdogan-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/erdogan-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/328539\/erdogan-again-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted on the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s thuggish (\u201cmildly Islamist\u201d, if you are <em>The Economist<\/em>)  prime minister Erdogan is doing his bit to restrict free speech. The Seattle Times <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/nationworld\/2019251937_unitednations25.html?prmid=head_main\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Prompted by the anti-Muslim video produced in California that has stirred deadly riots around the world, delegations from major Muslim nations have arrived at the United Nations prepared to demand international curbs on speech or media that they believe defame their religion or the Prophet Muhammad\u2026. The demand for limits on anti-Islamic expression is coming from leading Islamic groups such as the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, and leaders as diverse as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan, who Obama views as a key ally, has declared that all 57 Islamic nations \u201cshould speak forcefully with one voice,\u201d and has called for \u201cinternational legal regulations against attacks on what people deem sacred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These leaders consider anti-Islamic material a kind of \u201chate speech\u201d that should be banned around the world. They are expected to demand those regulations when debate begins Tuesday in the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has exposed a huge fault line in political philosophies,\u201d said Stewart Patrick, of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. \u201cIt may be irreconcilable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>May<\/em> be irreconcilable. Good grief. Suggesting that it is not \u2014 maybe with some \u201cdialog\u201d here, or a bit of \u201cinter-faith\u201d there \u2014 will only encourage those who believe that there does indeed exist some middle ground where debate can be politely and oh so sensitively stifled. Just look at the U.K. if you want to see how that works. <\/p>\n<p>To quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/316645\/free-speech-free-speech-free-speech-andrew-stuttaford\">yet again<\/a> what was written in <em>Jyllands-Posten<\/em> at the time of the Mohammed cartoons:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYtringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed. Der er intet men.\u201d The translation? \u201cFree speech is free speech is free speech. There is no but.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: Turkey\u2019s thuggish (\u201cmildly Islamist\u201d, if you are The Economist) prime minister Erdogan is doing his bit to restrict free speech. The Seattle Times reports: Prompted by the anti-Muslim video produced in California that has stirred deadly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/erdogan-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26,15,711],"tags":[51,50,969,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}