Why? Because...
Last year the U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution against "defamation of religion", calling on governments around the world to clamp down on cartoonists, writers, journalists, artists and dissidents who dare to speak up.
On-going things like these are why I asked this question
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I heard about this on a Christian radio broadcast.
I am concerned about the freedom of speech.
Expression is human....altogether human.
However, humans can be less than humane...less than kind.
Speech often precedes poor behavior.
So...halt the speech...and maybe the poor behavior won't happen.
However again...
There is no manner of lawmaking (speech) that can do so.
No one collection of people should expect to quell the opposition.
Previous attempts seem to aggravate, and then the oppositions flourish.
It seems also....in the face of being told...'no'...
The item to be silenced, begins to shout all the more.
As when the Carpenter entered the city, and the crowd did welcome Him...
the pharisees did object.
And they were warned...
"I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."