{"id":22482,"date":"2015-01-26T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22482"},"modified":"2015-01-26T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T03:15:21","slug":"freedom-of-speech-according-to-bishop-michael-ingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/freedom-of-speech-according-to-bishop-michael-ingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of speech according to Bishop Michael Ingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/freedom-of-expression-vs-religious-sensibilities-what-s-the-balance\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If religious criticism is intended deliberately to offend, to vilify or to slander, it is not acceptable and I would be outraged. And not just for my own religious faith, but also for others\u2019. I am not against satire. I am against hatred. If satire is intended respectfully to challenge or question a fundamental belief, or to expose the hypocrisy of the institution or its leaders, it is perfectly okay.<\/p>\n<p>There is no unlimited right to freedom of speech and no absolute right to freedom. To exist, freedom needs self-imposed restraints, and democracy requires a consensus based on mutual respect. What we have in the Paris cartoons is a misuse of freedom&#8230;it is secular fundamentalism that insists on the right to cause offence in the name of freedom. Religious satire is not off-limits when it serves the public good by exposing hypocrisy and causing us to live up to our ideals in a better way, but when its purpose is deliberately to offend, how is that different from hatred?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Ingham is in favour of satire and freedom of expression provided it is <em>respectful <\/em>and not <em>offensive, <\/em>thereby rendering it not free and not satirical<em>. <\/em>Additionally, satire has to serve the <em>public good. <\/em>Who decides this? In the absence of an ecclesiarchy, the state; welcome back to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, the imam pundit notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a free society, people have the right to offend, but people do not have the right to incite hatred or to stereotype an entire community. When you depict Mohamed as a terrorist, 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide are considered terrorists, when 99.9 per cent of them are peaceful. We must use freedom of speech with responsibility. That is the price of keeping a civil society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the imam is correct and 99.9% of Muslims are <em>peaceful <\/em>(I have a suspicion that figure is too high), we are left with 1.6 million who are not only not peaceful but, since the context is terrorism, are terrorists; I don\u2019t find that particularly reassuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: If religious criticism is intended deliberately to offend, to vilify or to slander, it is not acceptable and I would be outraged. And not just for my own religious faith, but also for others\u2019. I am not against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/freedom-of-speech-according-to-bishop-michael-ingham\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[503,774,2178],"class_list":["post-22482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech-2","tag-bishop-michael-ingham","tag-free-speech","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}