Religion and Politics

Free Speech in the Muslim World? Ask the Egyptian TV Station That First Aired the Anti-Islam Movie

At The Atlantic, Steve Inskeep writes, “For all the damage that mobs and armed groups have done in majority-Muslim nations in the past week, there is one target that they missed.” Inskeep suggests, “[I]t’s more illuminating to focus on Al Nas TV,” which first broadcast the Film in Egypt, than to study the filmmakers of the controversial film. “The station’s story even suggests one possible answer to the problem of offensive speech in a number of volatile majority-Muslim societies,” writes Inskeep. 

Read at The Atlantic

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