.... Professor Jytte Klausen, a Dane, is professor of comparative politics at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, an expert on Muslim communities in Europe and author of the book The Cartoons That Shook the World.
She believes there is no doubt the cartoon controversy has led to more self-censorship: ''The bottom line is that on this issue, the extremists won.''
.... ''The unfortunate thing is that religious hatred laws have created this expectation in [Muslims'] minds that their religion can't be insulted,'' he says.
''Whereas anyone interested in free speech would say people should be protected but ideas should not be protected; that religions should be open to scrutiny and sometimes should be mocked … but now a new 'right not to be offended' comes into play.'' [The Sydney Morning Herald] Read more
