Debate: Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend (2006)

From October of 2006; an Intelligence Squared debate discussing the premise that freedom of expression must include the license to offend.

For The Motion

Philip Gourevitch
Christopher Hitchens
Signe Wilkinson

Against The Motion

David Cesarani
Daisy Khan
Mari Matsuda


Original url: http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/past-debates/freedom-of-expression...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Christopher Hitchens
• David Cesarani
• Daisy Khan
• debate
• Freedom Of Speech
• Intelligence Squared
• Mari Matsuda
• Philip Gourevitch
• Signe Wilkinson

[thisisanewusername]

there will never be another christopher hitchens

[LogicinspiresLiberty]

@thisisanewusername: Unfortunately not. Thank you for commenting.

[prossihalty]

Thanks you so much for posting this debate! Hitchens closing statement is sure one of his best on islam...

[LogicinspiresLiberty]

@prossihalty: I thought it was an interesting debate. Thank you for commenting.

[DemocritusWept]

I think if the voting had been held til after Hitchen's closing it would have been 100% for the motion

[DemocritusWept]

my dear sir and mesdames, whatever the causes of WWII it was not the result of too much freedom of speech.

[ritchloui]

Muslims are members of a cult that gives itself permission to kill them if they leave. Muslims present themselves as an 'oppressed minority' yet are quick to point out that there are 1.2 billion of them who tolerate no opposition. In a 1998, CAIR founder Omar Ahmad told the San Ramon Valley Herald, "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."