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And an…interesting former FBI agent.

Human rights organizations operating openly? A free press? An independent judiciary?

Desire to avoid saying things that could be useful to the neocons is understandable, also a cop-out.

Eliot Weinberger announced nominees for book award and said one had engaged in ‘racism as criticism.’

Marc Hauser and other researchers do experiments to find out.

‘Government has relied too much on engagement with traditional leadership organisations.’

Organisations suing for ‘public insults against a group of people because they belong to a religion.’

‘The roots of this new terrorism are not in religion but in a political ideology which uses religious language.’

Editor Philippe Var told the Paris court the cartoons were criticising ‘ideas, not people.’

Yes, there is a reality out there; no, there is no ready-made truth of things. Keep up.

He says one cannot make generalised statements about Islam; astonishing from a professor of human rights.

Thought experiments help clarify and stimulate our thinking, but rarely, if ever, actually prove anything.

Literary castration…cheap fat-faced ugly four-eyed shot…shoddy thoughtcrimes…Hari is a fascist.

A tradition of hagiography and censorship has created a woefully inadequate picture.

Anything that deviates from a sanitised depiction of Muhammad can arouse extraordinary indignation.

‘If teachers really were subjecting toddlers to Socratic grillings, the child protection agency would be onto them like a shot.’

Politics as taking umbrage can end up with ideology unmoored from external reality.

‘Jake Chapman has declared that “the Enlightenment project…virulently infects the earth”.’

Dr Taj Hargey wants a campaign to resist move to make the niqab compulsory for Muslim women.

Commitments to human rights and fairness, not ethnic or group loyalties, define the limits of legitimate debate.