” . . . and I’ll say that, of course, an attacker, who could be called the agent of Satan, he attacked, but after that I found angels on all my side, everywhere, all around me to this time and this place.”
I’m not editing videos (yet), but here I’m also not entertaining so much.
Malala’s story has had a profound impact on Pakistan’s perspective on itself and attitude toward its extremists. If by itself the tragedy proves less than pivotal, it will nonetheless feed into the weighing of justice and choices in commitments to values in whatever happens next.
Free speech — here in the U.S., the First Amendment concept — has been argued around the world in the wake of rioting in Muslim-majority states associated, in part, with a clip on YouTube, “The Innocents of Muslims”.
While that’s been batted around elsewhere, and I have been involved with related chatyping on Facebook, I thought to run this interview here and on Backchannels as argument, introduction, and orientation having to do with what free speech in a free society means and that through the mouth of one of the western champions of the concept.
Probably, “conservative-socialist” may be met as a political oxymoron, but in these strange and upside-down days, Lars Hedegaard may fit that description. Despite a book with the term “Capitalism” boldly displayed on the table between interviewer Robert Vaughan and Lars Hedegaard, has a track record as regards the political concern for the less included and struggling in societies.
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