Tag: free speech
Hunting heretics in modern Australia
Ayaan Hirsi Ali will now not be coming to Australia. Her “Hero of Heresy” speaking tour this week has been cancelled due to “security concerns”. Too heretical for some: Hirsi …
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Irony free zone
In Pakistan, being an atheist apparently makes you a terrorist: In relation to uploading blasphemous content on social media, Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) Counter Terrorism Department and secret agencies have …
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We have democratised censorship
The “Infidel” Ayaan Hirsi-Ali is coming to Australia on a speaking tour in April and she will be exercising her freedom of speech as an atheist ex-Muslim and a women’s …
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Get your government out of my engagement
If you visited this planet as a guest from outer space and quickly scanned Australian media and social media, you would probably get the idea that the question of same-sex …
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The year of being silenced
My blogging year started with a trade union official abusing and threatening me – twice. It ends with a lost December, during which the control over my blog was taken …
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Against secular blasphemy laws
So Donald Trump created quite a bit of a stir with this tweet suggesting flag burners should be punished with jail or revocation of their citizenship. No, don’t even try …
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Chrenkoff or Jerkoff? or the one in which I became a hashtag
So last night, both on here and on the Spectator blog I took to task an overenthusiastic contributor to Techly, and by extension two panelists on Monday night’s Q&A, who …
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Q&A and bullshit arguments for section 18C
Some guy on some website thinks some people on some show DESTROYED the case against section 18C. Or something like that. Riordan Lee on Techly was watching Q&A last night, …
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I’m an Austrian woman, hear me roar
In the 1980s, the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs proposed a definition of an Indigenous Australian as a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as Aboriginal …
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So much outrage, so little time
A few days ago, a 53-year-old resident of an affluent Rhode Island town (but I’m repeating myself) of Barrington, Alan Sorrentino, wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to his local newspaper (circulation …
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Should we ban the ISIS flag?
While it’s perhaps unfair to compare British apples with Swedish oranges, it’s interesting to note that while in the United Kingdom waving a banner with a slogan “F*** ISISâ€, and …
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Words will always hurt me so I’ll use sticks and stones to break your bones
Free speech is under assault everywhere around the world. In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother-of-five, has been under the death sentence for the past six years for blasphemy – …
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