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Whether his lordship's reputation as a voice of the faithful will survive this particular episode is anybody's guess, but no doubt some other self-appointed representative of the Muslim minority will step forward to dictate things the next time the Koran is threatened with a public examination. The film Submission, made by Theo van Gogh to a script by Somali immigrant, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, brought death to the director and exile to Hirsi Ali, by then a member of the Dutch parliament.\n The fact that this involves jettisoning our inherited freedoms and the ground rules of democratic politics is of little significance, compared with the opportunity to show preemptive acquiescence in whatever demands the Muslim minority might be prepared to make.
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Free Speech in Europe
IT IS PROBABLY WELL KNOWN to our readers that the British government, on the advice of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, recently prevented Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, from visiting Britain, to which country he had been invited in order to show his short film Fitna to a group of peers in the House of Lords. Fitna means "turning away" or "temptation," and denotes the sin to which young Muslims are exposed in Western societies....
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