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Stockholm Sees First Quran Burning Since Permit Ban Overturned by Courts

Chris Tomlinson June 29, 2023

After months of court battles, anti-Islam protestors have burned yet another copy of the Quran in Stockholm, adding yet more tensions to Sweden’s bid to seek NATO approval from Turkey, whose Foreign Minister condemned the burning.

Royalist Parade Honouring Joan of Arc Banned by Paris Police

Hélène de Lauzun May 12, 2023

The ban follows instructions given directly by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who on Tuesday, May 9th, expressly requested that any demonstration originating from “the ultra-Right or the extreme Right be banned.”

Blasphemy Laws and ‘Hate Speech’: Free Speech at a Crossroads

Sofia Hörder April 26, 2023

The roots of oppressive censorship are one and the same. Europe’s ‘hate speech’ laws are a secular equivalent to blasphemy laws—both hinder people from living and speaking freely.

Hungarian President Vetoes ‘Complaints Law’ Over LGBT Concerns

Tamás Orbán April 24, 2023

“It is necessary to consider whether [it’s] consistent with the freedom of expression,” President Novák stated, questioning the law’s applicability.

Cancel Culture: The Illusion of Justice

Daria Fedotova April 10, 2023

It is not activists’ sincere belief in the harm caused by ‘wrong words’ that is the problem, but their ill-founded hubris—their self-assumed role of holy avengers bringing the world to the ‘right side of history.’

It’s Time To Speak Up for Free Speech

Sofia Hörder March 30, 2023

Let’s take Finnish MP Räsänen’s words to heart: “Now it is time to speak. Because the more we are silent, the narrower the space for freedom of speech and religion grows.”

Thoughtcrime Britain

Frank Haviland March 24, 2023

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce must have presented quite a challenge for the officers: a lone, middle-aged Catholic woman, armed with a double-barrelled surname, silently thinking forbidden thoughts.

The ‘Re-education’ of Jordan Peterson

Frank Haviland February 3, 2023

Peterson’s enemies try to silence him: the latest attempt comes from the Ontario College of Psychologists, who have ordered him to undergo social media ‘re-education,’ or risk suspension of his licence to practice as a clinical psychologist.

Inside a Modern-Day Heresy Trial

Paul Coleman January 24, 2023

It was exactly one year ago, on a cold, dark winter evening in January 2022, when Paul Coleman arrived in Helsinki for the modern-day heresy trial of Finnish MP Dr. Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola.

The New Latin Conservatism

Juanma Badenas | Marco Gervasoni January 9, 2023

The Right must adapt its ideas, strategy, and discourse to the current political ‘dialectics,’ and not remain anchored to—or trapped by—approaches that are far from the concerns of citizens today.

Tag: freedom of expression

Stockholm Sees First Quran Burning Since Permit Ban Overturned by Courts

Royalist Parade Honouring Joan of Arc Banned by Paris Police

Blasphemy Laws and ‘Hate Speech’: Free Speech at a Crossroads

Hungarian President Vetoes ‘Complaints Law’ Over LGBT Concerns

Cancel Culture: The Illusion of Justice

It’s Time To Speak Up for Free Speech

Thoughtcrime Britain

The ‘Re-education’ of Jordan Peterson

Inside a Modern-Day Heresy Trial

The New Latin Conservatism

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