The burning of holy books: Freedom of speech or phobia?
A couple of weeks back, I was invited to the London-based “Kalimahorra” (“Free Words”) program at the independent Arab satellite news channel, Al-Mayadeen, which operates out of Beirut, Lebanon. George Galloway leads a discussion about Danish-Swedish Islamophobic activist and lawyer Rasmus Paludan, burning a Quaran in Stockholm – touching upon freedom of speech, sacredness, human rights, racism, security politics, and more. I was one of two presenters to stimulate the discussion that followed in the studio. I was happy to be given this opportunity, and you can now watch the event on TFF’s Video Channel on Vimeo – where, by