The limit to free speech
News.com.au reports:
A RADICAL Islamic preacher has been arrested in Norway after praising last month’s deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris.
The Iraqi Kurd preacher known as Mullah Krekar said in a television interview broadcast on Wednesday that “those who draw caricatures of Mohammed must die”.
Krekar, who was only freed from prison late last month, was arrested on Thursday night on accusations of inciting crime, police said.
“I am obviously happy with what happened in Paris,” the 58-year-old said in the interview with Norwegian channel NRK.
Krekar also responded “yes” when asked if he believed those who carried out the attack were heroes.
When a cartoonist “tramples on our dignity, our principles and our faith, he must die,” he said.
“Those who do not respect 30 per cent of the Earth’s population do not deserve to live.”
I’m a proponent of free speech, but there are limits. Advocating and inciting death to those who don’t subscribe to your religious beliefs is that limit.
While courts have upheld the ruling, Norwegian law bars him from being deported to Iraq, where he risks the death penalty.
A pity.