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Nous devons critiquer cette islamisation de la lutte, mais pas en se rangeant sur les positions impérialistes, ce qu’est dans le contexte de l’affaire des caricatures la croisade pour la liberté d’expression.
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Plus inquiétant encore, c’est de retrouver, au moment où la presse n’a jamais été aussi concentrée entre des mains réactionnaires, bon nombre de personnalités de gauche s’embrigader d’eux-mêmes dans cette croisade pour la soi-disant «liberté d’expression», comme si c’était un absolu, faisant fi de toutes considérations et analyses politiques.
It is difficult to ignore the emerging European consensus that it is not just freedom of speech, but Europe's secular civilization, that is at stake. It recalls times when both left and right have portrayed empire as a necessary defense of civilization, at first equated with Christianity and later human rights.
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Every morning, as I read the paper or surf the internet, I anxiously look for significant European voices -- not from government but from the world of the intellect and the arts -- that would distance themselves from this particular attempt to promote Islamophobia as an exercise in free speech. I eagerly await signs of a lively debate within European civil society, one that will break the current impasse with testimony that the intellectual and political children of those who fought fascism in Europe have not lost the ability to recognize and the courage to fight hate speech in a different form.
The Political Uses of Free Speech, Mahmood Mamdani, 14 février 2006
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