![]() ![]() When the cartoons were published many on the left suddenly claimed that insulting Muslims was an abuse of free speech. Especially since I saw how perspectives often change. ![]() This led me to investigate the importance of free speech which has been an obsession ever since. But in 2005 a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused global uproar and violence. I was born and raised in Denmark – a free and secular country and for most of my life I have taken free speech for granted. Mchangama also details the rising threats to free speech, and how power is used to silence others, something our readers across the MENA region know all too much about. The book outlines the history of free speech as a concept, and how this fundamental right is our “first freedom", from which all other freedoms follow. ![]() Our translators just finished translating his book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media into Arabic and are now hard at work disseminating the book across the Middle East. Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, writer, and the founder of Justitia, a think tank that promotes and defends individual freedom, the rule of law, and human rights worldwide. ![]()
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