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Land Of The Free Speakers
Elisabeth Eaves, 2009-01-23 (Friday), Forbes
Intellectual exiles come from democracies, too.

Salman Rushdie was our canary in the coal mine: He first felt the effects of suffocating gasses that would start to envelope us all.

Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in late 1988 when he was living in Britain, was seen as blasphemous by some Muslims. Feb. 14 will mark 20 years since Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini sent the author a bloody Valentine, issuing a religious decree calling for his death.

Rushdie was forced to live in hiding and under guard for many years and eventually moved to New York.

In 1989, I was struck by the singular strangeness of the whole story. Riot-inciting thought police? In England? In the modern era? Two decades later I'm struck by how encroaching this story has become.

Rushdie, now 61, shared the 92nd Street Y stage on Sunday with Irshad Manji, a 40-year-old Canadian born in Idi Amin's Uganda.

Manji, a devout but controversially reformist Muslim, is the author of The Trouble With Islam Today; she also does things like post an imam's defense of interfaith marriage on her Web site in multiple languages, so that forlorn Romeos and Juliets may show it, as she says, to "conservative parents and bigoted clerics." She, too, is the subject of death threats.

Neither Rushdie nor Manji are refugees; both come from places where they enjoyed the protection of the law and both chose to live in New York for the reasons so many of us do -- work, pleasure, lifestyle. But their conversation got me thinking about the unique protections accorded to free speech in the U.S.

Consider Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. Israeli-born and resident in New York, Ehrenfeld has made a career of following money trails to their murkiest sources and been threatened and sued multiple times for her efforts.

Most recently she became a victim of so-called libel tourism. In Funding Evil, she wrote that a wealthy Saudi Arabian, Khalid bin Mahfouz, had financed terrorist activities. Under U.S. law her well-documented accusation doesn't qualify as libel, so bin Mahfouz sued her in Great Britain.

The book had never been published in Britain or sold in book stores there, but a few copies had been obtained via online sellers. A British judge imposed a fine on Ehrenfeld and said her book should be destroyed.

Through cases like these, U.K. laws, which have a chilling effect on the country's own publishers, are affecting foreign publishers and writers, too. Recently the government came close to clamping down on free speech even further.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a sop to Muslim constituents upset about his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, urged the criminalizing of "religious incitement"; the law failed by just one vote. In one of the great crucibles of democracy, this is where free speech is heading.

Then there is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian, author of Infidel, and one of Europe's most vocal critics of militant Islam. She wrote a movie script critical of Islam; its director, Theo van Gogh, was subsequently stabbed to death.

Hirsi Ali, an elected member of the Dutch parliament, lived under high security in the Netherlands for years before an immigration minister from her own party effectively hounded her out of the country, accusing her of lying about her name, age and refugee status when she first came to Holland, and threatening to strip Hirsi Ali of her passport.

That didn't happen, but Hirsi Ali resigned her seat in parliament and now resides in Washington, D.C., where she is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. (This is just as well for her. Another Dutch member of parliament, Geert Wilders, was ordered by an appeals court on Thursday to stand trial for "insulting Islam" and will face jail time if found guilty. Maybe another American think-tank will offer him a perch if he's acquitted and wants to take a breather from the Netherlands.)

I find it remarkable that it's not just regimes we know to be despotic that are stifling free speech, but also Western democracies. Canada is now embroiled in a debate over its so-called anti-hate laws, under which the Canadian Human Rights Commission is responsible for ferreting out and stopping acts of hatred, among them insults to religion.

The absurdity of these speech-curtailing laws emerged when the Commission summoned Maclean's magazine and writer Mark Steyn to defend themselves against accusations of Islamophobia.

But now that Canadians are finally talking about doing away with the laws, it's Jewish groups that want to keep them on the books. Here's a good litmus test for whether a law makes any sense: If the "crime" in question can only be described using the word for an emotion, like "hate" or "phobia," then we have wandered into thought-police territory.

Finally, there's the United Nations, which admittedly isn't much of a democracy, but which claims to uphold the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The declaration, though, says that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression."

The U.N. General Assembly, on the other hand, has passed resolutions, most recently last November, banning "defamation of religion."

Are we who live in the U.S. so safe? Our politicians and judges haven't lost their heads, but self-censorship can be chilling, too. Last year, Random House was planning to publish The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones, a fictionalized version of the life of one of Mohammed's wives.

After the company received some cautionary advice about the controversy the book might cause, it shelved the project. Random House can do whatever it wants, of course, and another imprint, Beaufort Books, went on to publish the book without incident. But the decision to abandon the project suggests that an unhealthy fear has crept onto these shores. When those canaries in the coal mines went quiet, it was time to pay attention.

Elisabeth Eaves is a deputy editor at Forbes, where she also writes a weekly column

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2007-01-30The Proliferation Security Initiative: Coming in from the Cold
2006-12-04Afghanistan: No blood for oil - this time
2006-11-29Islamic Revolution
2006-12-16Revamping Us Foreign Policy, Part 1 - Full speed ahead, with menace
2006-09-03Transcript - President Bush's Speech
2006-05-18Muslim's Loss of Dutch Citizenship Stirs Storm
2006-08-21Ask the expert: Bush’s foreign policy
2006-05-01Women, Islam, and the New Iraq
2006-10-18The Clash of Cultures and American Hegemony
2006-10-21Western Terror: From Potosi To Baghdad
2006-10-13Interview Vali Nasr
2006-10-13Regional Implications of Shi‘a
2006-10-02Full text of Tony Blair's speech to the TUC
2006-10-04The Geopolitics of War
2006-10-07Ayatollah al-Sistani and the end of Islam
2006-10-07The Gumps of August
2006-11-27The Passion of the Pope
2006-11-17Muslim Women Are the Key to Change
2006-11-07TURKEY AND THE AZERBAIJANI OIL CONTROVERSIES: LOOKING FOR A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE PIPELINE
2006-11-07MAGHREB REGIME SCENARIOS
2007-12-29Dutch Courage -- Holland's latest insult to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2007-12-07Hirsi Ali, atheism and Islam
2007-11-13The new wars of religion
2007-11-20Whose War?
2007-11-22The United States’ new backyard
2007-12-03Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy
2007-11-26Norwegian Jihad -- Transcript
2008-01-01Jihadists in Jails Win Leverage Over Their Keepers
2008-01-05An Islamic Europe
2008-01-07Azzam the American -- The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown
2008-01-09Bush's Messiah Complex
2008-01-19A Political-Risk Outlook for 2008
2008-01-28Playing real dumb
2008-01-24The Three Rs: Rivalry, Russia, ’Ran
2008-01-24A Moral Core for U.S. Foreign Policy
2008-01-30First They Came for the Gays
2008-01-30Did Di Die for Prada Islam?
2008-02-04Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims
2008-02-09Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective
2008-02-06The 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture by Bernard Lewis
2008-02-08Theorizing Islam
2008-02-08Eurabia - Europe's Future? -- A briefing by Bat Ye'or
2008-02-08The Fallacy of Grievance-based Terrorism
2007-10-23Torture in the Name of Freedom
2007-11-01Noam Chomsky - Controlled Asset Of The New World Order
2007-11-11The Next Act -- Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
2007-11-07Blood borders -- How a better Middle East would look
2007-10-06Salafism's simple message appeals to Muslim youth
2007-10-06Protection
2007-10-09Johann Hari: How multiculturalism is betraying women
2007-10-10AYAAN HIRSI ALI -- EUROPE'S FIRST REFUGEE SINCE THE HOLOCAUST
2007-09-07Understanding the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Walt-Mearsheimer Claim
2007-08-29President Bush Addresses the 89th Annual National Convention of the American Legion
2007-09-28Inside Track: Are Terrorism, Islamism and Salafism in Europe Connected?
2007-09-24Betrayed -- The Iraqis who trusted America the most
2007-09-16How Al-Qa'idah 'martyrs' enter Iraq
2008-06-05Terror as a trump weapon of jehad
2008-06-02Jordan defends Islam with charm
2008-05-14NATO at a Crossroads
2008-04-29The Pentagon's New Map
2008-05-04Rush Interviews Andrew McCarthy
2008-05-17Planned US Israeli Attack on Iran: Will there be a War against Iran?