Deeyah Khan underlines the importance of free expression.
When I organised World Woman I was keen to emphasise the need for freedom of expression for activists and artists, to identify that those who are most likely to be silenced by the religious right most often share the culture of those who wish to silence them: that this is not a conflict of the enlightened West versus the obscurantist East, but against extremist ideologies that threaten all our shared liberties.
Definitely. We have extremist theocrats in “the West” and there are many loyal free expressionists in “the East.”
… Read the rest[T]here is something very wrong with a world in which being an artist, activist, a feminist, a politician, a lawyer or a
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