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March for free expression
Rally for Freedom of Expression, London, 2:00pm March 25th 2006 Trafalgar Square,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/010352.php
A Rally in support of Freedom of Expression
will be held in
Trafalgar Square, London, UK
between
2:00pm and 4:00pm on March 25th 2006.
A direct response to the Danish Cartoons controversy, this rally aims to send a message to British politicians of all parties demanding resolute action in the face of violence, threats and intolerance. The statement of principle for the campaign is as follows:
"The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time.
The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock.
We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same.
We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them."
So far, individuals and organisations from all parts of the political spectrum and from many parts of the world have offered support and endorsements. Though based in Britain, we offer our support and solidarity to the people of Denmark and every other country that faces religious intolerance today, and ask that people in other countries consider organising their own rallies and marches for March 25th.
Let's march in March to show our governments that we expect our societies to be ones in which free and open debate and disagreement can take place without people being threatened, killed or imprisoned.
Peter Risdon
Patrick Vidaud
[email protected]
http://www.marchforfreeexpression.blogspot.com/
WHAT AND WHEN
A Rally in Trafalgar Square between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday March 25th 2006. Depending on estimates of numbers, the details of a march to Trafalgar Square will be announced on March 15th 2006.
Free Muslims endorse the March in March
Moderate Muslims in Denmark have formed the Demokratiske Muslimer (Democratic Muslims) organisation to disavow the extremists and to state in public that the hate-mongering imams who stirred up the Danish Cartoon controversy do NOT speak for them.
In taking this step, they are joining the ranks of Muslim organisations who disavow violence and extremism and who seek to place religious activity in the personal, rather than public, domain. One of the first to be established, the Free Muslims Coalition, has been among the first organisations to endorse the March for Free Expression. Kamal Nawash, the President of FMC, was succinct when I read him the statement of principle. "Exactly," he said.
The FMC website includes this statement of purpose:
The Free Muslims was created to eliminate broad base support for Islamic extremism and terrorism and to strengthen secular democratic institutions in the Middle East and the Muslim World by supporting Islamic reformation efforts.
Rally for Freedom of Expression, London, 2:00pm March 25th 2006 Trafalgar Square,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/010352.php
A Rally in support of Freedom of Expression
will be held in
Trafalgar Square, London, UK
between
2:00pm and 4:00pm on March 25th 2006.
A direct response to the Danish Cartoons controversy, this rally aims to send a message to British politicians of all parties demanding resolute action in the face of violence, threats and intolerance. The statement of principle for the campaign is as follows:
"The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time.
The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock.
We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same.
We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them."
So far, individuals and organisations from all parts of the political spectrum and from many parts of the world have offered support and endorsements. Though based in Britain, we offer our support and solidarity to the people of Denmark and every other country that faces religious intolerance today, and ask that people in other countries consider organising their own rallies and marches for March 25th.
Let's march in March to show our governments that we expect our societies to be ones in which free and open debate and disagreement can take place without people being threatened, killed or imprisoned.
Peter Risdon
Patrick Vidaud
[email protected]
http://www.marchforfreeexpression.blogspot.com/
WHAT AND WHEN
A Rally in Trafalgar Square between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday March 25th 2006. Depending on estimates of numbers, the details of a march to Trafalgar Square will be announced on March 15th 2006.
Free Muslims endorse the March in March
Moderate Muslims in Denmark have formed the Demokratiske Muslimer (Democratic Muslims) organisation to disavow the extremists and to state in public that the hate-mongering imams who stirred up the Danish Cartoon controversy do NOT speak for them.
In taking this step, they are joining the ranks of Muslim organisations who disavow violence and extremism and who seek to place religious activity in the personal, rather than public, domain. One of the first to be established, the Free Muslims Coalition, has been among the first organisations to endorse the March for Free Expression. Kamal Nawash, the President of FMC, was succinct when I read him the statement of principle. "Exactly," he said.
The FMC website includes this statement of purpose:
The Free Muslims was created to eliminate broad base support for Islamic extremism and terrorism and to strengthen secular democratic institutions in the Middle East and the Muslim World by supporting Islamic reformation efforts.
