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Liberal democracies must outlaw blasphemy in order to promote tolerance

Liberal democracies must outlaw blasphemy in order to promote tolerance

Ryan Schram

Mills 169 (A26)

ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au

21 May 2015

Readings

Keane, Webb. 2009. “Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons.” Public Culture 21 (1): 47–76. doi:10.1215/08992363–2008–021.

Weill, Nicolas. 2006. “What’s in a Scarf?: The Debate on Laïcité in France.” French Politics, Culture & Society 24 (1): 59–73.

Other media

Lee, Amos. 2015. “Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMODDfNE0Y. WARNING: Contains obscenity and adolescent lèsé majesté.

Mackey, Robert. 2015. “Teenager Faces Charges After Mocking Singapore’s Founding Father on YouTube.” The New York Times, March 30. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/asia/teen-faces-charges-after-mocking-singapores-founding-father-on-youtube.html.

Ramzy, Austin. 2015. “Singapore Arrests Teenager Over Video Critical of Lee Kuan Yew.” The New York Times, March 30. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/asia/singapore-arrests-teenager-over-video-critical-of-lee-kuan-yew.html.

Theodorou, Angelina. 2015. “Which Countries Still Outlaw Apostasy and Blasphemy?” Pew Research Center. Accessed May 13. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/which-countries-still-outlaw-apostasy-and-blasphemy/.

Key ideas for this week

  • What does secularism have to do with liberalism?
  • How has discussion of immigration in the West changed in recent years?
  • Do liberal states need to regulate religion? Do they have the right do determine what you, as a religious person, can think? What you can say? What you can do?

A guide to the unit

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