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This is what we are reduced to: a maximum of 200 words because the group chairmen decided in a restricted meeting that our debate on the freedom of expression was to be deprived of that very freedom.
Allowing only one speaker per group is a real denial of democracy, just when this cartoon controversy is in the world news and is putting part of the world to fire and sword.
Has it been said often enough that the cartoon that sparked things off was depicting nothing other than what the terrorists do: perpetrate their acts in the name of Allah? This is not a cartoon depicting Islam; this is a cartoon depicting fanaticism.
Has enough been done to denounce the way in which a cartoonist, a newspaper, a nation and a government have been lumped together?
The freedom of the press and freedom of expression, which underpin our values, are being held to ransom. Yes, I want to tighten the links between our cultures, but I do not accept any bargaining whatsoever where our values are concerned. Human rights come before the law of Allah, or of any other God.
If any serious mistakes, abuses or incitements to hatred have occurred, then it is up to the courts to judge them, but I reject censorship. I give no one permission to extinguish the Enlightenment philosophies that I claim as my own."@en1
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