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".
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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