The right to be downright offensive "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist," wrote Salman Rushdie. It's 15 years since Rushdie's novel, the Satanic Verses, earned the Booker Prize-winning novelist death threats, but the question persists. -------------- Why did this make me think of the board? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4114497.stm
it's a bit shocking like... i'm sure in other arab states, they wouldn't have had as much freedom of speech to air their views or dared to protest never mind showering 800 mums, dads and kids with glass when going to see a panto when they put the windows in....