The 'Day of Jihad' That Never Came
One year ago, political figures spread a false terrorism panic that made everyone less free—and incited violence against a child.
One year ago, political figures spread a false terrorism panic that made everyone less free—and incited violence against a child.
Plus: Kamala Harris doubles down on rent control, Gavin Newsom issues a new executive order on housing, and the natural tendency to keep adding more regulation.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.
Washington keeps getting caught pushing the kind of disinformation it claims to oppose.
The Turkish opposition ran circles around President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's party in local elections. It could be the beginning of the end of his 20-year reign.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
"Being a true free speech champion does require that you defend speech that even you disagree with," says libertarian Rikki Schlott.
A cabinet minister who once defended the right to blaspheme now wants a crackdown.
The Center has gotten rich in part thanks to its "hate map," which smears many good people.
"My artwork is unapologetic," said the artist. "Sometimes it can be very political. Sometimes it can be very controversial."
"Hamline subjected López Prater to the foregoing adverse actions because . . . she did not conform her conduct to the specific beliefs of a Muslim sect," the lawsuit states.
"If Hamline won't listen to free speech advocates or faculty across the country, they'll have to listen to their accreditor," said FIRE attorney Alex Morey, who filed the complaint.
Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.
This time could really be different.
Numerous critics object to the fact that the filmmaker, Meg Smaker, is a white woman.
Ideas Beyond Borders is bringing ideas about pluralism, civil liberties, and critical thinking to hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them.
French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.
Born in nationalism, the Olympic games are fading into a niche entertainment option.
It's by far the best cinematic version of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.
The Reign of Terror author on fighting surveillance and interventionism done in the name of stopping jihad.
Earlier in November, surveillance footage captured officers beating a man for not wearing a mask.
Trump's failure to speak out against Modi's reign of lawlessness and terror is an epic abdication of responsibility.
They want to scrap the citizenship rights of Indian Muslims because America helped Soviet Jews and Christians.
The Chinese Communist Party confiscated a sacred meteorite from Muslim herders. They're suing to get it back.
Narendra Modi relies on private militants allied with his party to crack down on dissent.
His brutal response to the protests against his anti-Muslim initiative reveal him as a Hindu nationalist, not a reformer.
He is yanking their rights and building detention camps.
Instead of its economy becoming more liberal, its polity is growing more illiberal.
Activist Nury Turkel discusses the vast network of camps that may hold over a million Uighurs in western China.
The viral clip was misleadingly edited, and stripped of important context
So holds a Pennsylvania appellate decision.
Depends on how much of the face it covers, the California Court of Appeal seems to suggest.
He's promising voters protection from made-up threats instead of prosperity.
The Appellate Court of Illinois reverses a trial court decision that deferred to a Muslim divorce from India.
A Pennsylvania court decision said they can (though relying on cases generally allowing restrictions on Public Trial Clause and First Amendment trial access rights in the interest of preventing embarrassment to witnesses).