[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

[Fred Bauder]

I wonder if a few iconic Islamic related expressions could not also be
included such as burning or threatening to burn a copy of the Koran?
There would have to be scienter, knowing its significance, of course; a
fact that was not present in a recent case in Pakistan where a
developmentally handicapped young woman was charged.

Fred

> Free speech in the US is, I believe, generally considered to exclude
> both "fighting words" and "shouting fire in a crowded theatre".
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> On 20/09/2012 04:56, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> I think any laws should be couched in terms of damaging foreign
>> relations or inciting to riot. I'm not sure they would be
>> unconstitutional even in the United States. When the Chairman of the
>> Joint Chiefs of Staff is reduced to begging a fundamentalist preacher
>> in Florida to cool it, something is out of whack. Fred
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