Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide (repost)
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199812268 | 2011 | MOBI | 480 pages | 1.1 MB
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199812268 | 2011 | MOBI | 480 pages | 1.1 MB
The fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being accused of blasphemy in the Muslim world. As this eye-opening volume reveals, accusations of "blasphemy," "apostasy," or "insulting Islam" are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces in the Muslim world to acquire and consolidate power.