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Monty Python may have expected some backlash, but they certainly did not expect a Spanish Inquisition when they released Life of Brian (1979). However, that was quite what they were met with when the movie first came out and a large number of priests throughout the Western world who wanted …

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Salman Rushdie   On Valentine’s Day 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini sent a different kind of love letter to Salman Rushdie through the Radio Tehran station. He issued a fatwa against him calling all Muslims on Earth to …

“There is no god, and we are his prophets” Cormac McCarthy, The Road This story would be funny, if it wasn’t tragic. It’s the story of how a dozen comic cartoons contributed to the deaths of roughly 200 people, while Western leaders, and the Western public at large, failed to …

On 7 January 2015, a tragedy befell the capital of France, when two brothers attacked the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing and injuring many of its staff. Cause of the attack were the blasphemous cartoons on its front pages, which depicted Mohamed; a depiction that constitutes a …

When the Athenian Acropolis museum opened, another attempt to intervene in the intellectual world of the country was made by the Greek Orthodox Church. The reason was a short animated video, directed by none other than Costa-Gavras, where the damages to the Parthenon where depicted. Around one and a half …