This was a great Slate Magazine article.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...it_legal_to_insult_muslims_but_not_jews_.html


This might belong to the PC and E thread but I thought this specific article would be especially pertinent to this section of the site. I was especially intrigued by the fact that there are penal laws throughout Europe that criminalize some forms of hate speech while they simultaneously protect Anti-Muslim hate propaganda as free speech.

I'm curious if Muslim writers see the concept the article outlines as carrying over to the writing community especially during the wip process.
 

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[FONT=&quot]Thanks TimmyV. This is extremely true. I was watching a report in French about this very same subject. The Muslims who protested peacefully against discriminating cartoons were arrested while the people who drew them were allowed a second running of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9uspfqcVTc

Personally, it hasn't affected my writing because there's not much politics in my WIPs, but there are many instances of pointing out double standards in society.

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