There is a great article over a the Washington Post about the loss of freedom of speech in most of the world (even the west). This is a very scary trend that seems to be a spreading around the world. The U.N. Human Rights Council recently passed a resolution condemning speech that is critical of religion. The New York Times had this to say about it.
Last month, it endorsed an ill-considered Pakistani resolution against defaming religions that could easily be used to justify censorship and official persecution of unbelievers.
This is an attempt to satisfy certain religious groups. I do not mean to offend people with religious beliefs, but they need to learn how to take criticism and learn to live in a world with diverse views. I realize that the majority of religious people are not the ones that I am referring too. This is a small minority of people, at least in the west and probably most of the world. The beauty of a free society is that anyone can say anything they want, but that does not mean you are required to listen or even agree. Freedom of speech is the right that all other civil liberties are based on.
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