Free speech has always been in danger of succumbing to the hysteria of the moment. Remember WWI, Hitler, Stalin, the anguish of the Cold War, the creep towards Big Brother? There have been countless internal and external threats to this hard-fought European tradition. The fact that new threats emerge does not mean that it will simply lie down and die this time round. The fight has always been the same, only the battlefield changed time and again. And it is changing right now. Freedom of speech has found new allies in Asia, Latin America and the Arab world, for instance in Lebanon. Even most Arab immigrants in Europe, many of whom may have trouble adapting to it, couldn't live without it anymore.Originally Posted by Vladimir
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