Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide (102 page)

20
. John Latham, “At War with the Tate,”
Independent
, October 12, 2005,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-latham-at-war-with-the-tate-510620.html
; Stephen Deuchar, “This Is Not Censorship, It’s Safety,”
The Guardian
, October 11, 2005,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/11/art.terrorism
.

21
. Andrew Higgins, “Muslims Ask French to Cancel 1741 Play by Voltaire,”
AP
, March 6, 2006,
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/03/muslims_ask_fre.php
.

22
. Craig Whitlock, “Fear of Muslim Backlash Cancels Opera,”
Washington Post
, September 27, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601352.html
; David R. Sands, “Opera Canceled for Fear of Muslim Ire,”
Washington Times
, September 27, 2006; Madeline Chambers, “Merkel Warns Against Bowing to Fear of Muslim Violence,” Reuters, September 27, 2006,
http://www.islamfortoday.com/germany01.htm
; Craig Whitlock, “In German Opera, Heads Come Off Without Incident,”
Washington Post
, December 18, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801255.html
; Mark Landler, “At German Conference on Muslim Relations, One Vote is Unanimous: Mozart Must Go On,”
New York Times
, September 28, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/world/europe/28germany.html
.

23
. Geir Moulson, “Berlin Gallery Closes Danish Group’s Exhibition after Threats over Poster,”
AP
, February 29, 2008,
http://www.Reuters.com/article/idUSL2860324220080228
.

24
. Kate Connolly, “Security Stepped Up As German Theater Breaks Taboo by Staging Satanic Verses,”
The Guardian
, March 29, 2008,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/mar/29/theatre.germany
; “German Theater Stages Version of Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses,’”
AP
, March 31, 2008.

25
. Isabel Vincent, “ ‘Jihad’ Jitters at Met,”
New York Post
, January 10, 2010,
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/jihad_jitters_at_met_76yj3VNUy4hcRAnhOcPCHP
.

26
. The Jewel of Medina statement by Random House Publishing Group,
http://www.random-house.com/rhpg/medinaletter.html
; Patricia Cohen, “Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book,”
New York Times
, August 12, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html
; statement by Yale University Press, August 14, 2009,
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/KlausenStatement.asp
.

27
. For the interview with Klausen, see
http://www.thefire.org/article/11418.html
; Wendy Kaminer, “Index on Censorship Meets the Enemy Within,”
The Atlantic
, December 21, 2010,
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2009/12/index-on-censorship-meets-the-enemy-within/32439/
.

28
. Sarah Marsh, “German Publisher Cancels Book Seen Insulting Islam,” Reuters, October 6, 2009,
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5952Y120091006
.

29
. Aaron Eitan Meyer, “Frankfurt Cancels ‘Muhammad Look-alike Contest’ Out of Fear of Offending Muslims,” Legal Project Blog, October 30, 2008,
http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2008/10/frankfurt-cancels-muhammad-look-alike
.

30
. “Fatwa for ‘Gay Jesus’ Writer,”
BBC News
, October 29, 1999,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/493436.stm
. This quotation is of the BBC’s paraphrase rather than of Sheik Muhammad’s exact words.

31
. “Muslim Gang Forces Paris Café to Censor Cartoon Show,”
AFP
, March 31, 2006.

32
. Ben Sisario, “London Gallery Removes Works,”
New York Times
, October 7, 2006,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E6D91230F934A35753C1A9609C8B63
.

33
. Giulio Meotti, “In the Casbah of Rotterdam,” originally in
il Foglio
, May 14, 2009, trans. Matthew Sherry,
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1338480?eng=y
.

34
. “Men Plotted Against UK Publisher of Mohammad Book,” Reuters, April 21, 2009,
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE53K2SO20090421
; Asra Q. Nomani, “You Still Can’t Write About Muhammad,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 6, 2008,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121797979078815073.html
.

35
. “ ‘Draw Mohammad’ Cartoonist Goes into Hiding at FBI’s Insistence after Assassination Threat,”
Fox News
, September 16, 2010.

36
. Andrew Alexander, “Where Was the ‘Where’s Muhammad?’ Cartoon?”
Washington Post
, October 10, 2010.

37
. Tara Bahrampour, “Out of Suburbia, the Online Extremist,”
Washington Post
, November 2, 2010; Nina Mandell, “Zachary Chesser, Man Who Threatened South Park Creators, Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison,”
New York Daily News
, February 25, 2011.

38
. Marlise Simons, “Militant Muslims Act to Suppress Dutch Film and Art Show,”
New York Times
, January 31, 2005,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D9153BF932A05752C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
.

39
. Jana Winter, “Iranian Artist Fights to Have Muhammad Art Displayed in Dutch Museums,”
Fox News
, May 3, 2008,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354075,00.html
; Matthew Campbell, “Woman Artist Gets Death Threats over Gay Muslim Photos,”
The Sunday Times
, January 6, 2008,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3137510.ece
. For a similar case, see also “Swedish Museum Removes Painting after Complaints about Use of Muslim Verses,”
AP
, February 3, 2005,
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18596867_ITM
.

40
. Ben Hoyle, “Artists Too Frightened to Tackle Radical Islam,”
The Times
, November 19, 2007,
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2896431.ece
;
Tim Walker, “Hytner ‘Is Afraid of Offending Muslims,’ ”
Daily Telegraph
, July 30, 2008,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/2472422/Hytneris-afraid-of-offending-Muslims.html
; Ben Child, “Emmerich Reveals Fear of Fatwa Axed 2012 Scene,”
The Guardian
, November 3, 2009,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/03/roland-emmerich-2012-kaaba
.

41
. Stephanie Van Den Berg, “Dutch Far-right Leader Fortuyn Shot Dead,”
AFP
, May 6, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1971423.stm
; Abrose Evans-Pritchard and Joan Clements, “Fortuyn Killed ‘to Protect Muslims,”
Daily Telegraph
(U.K.), March 28, 2003,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1425944/Fortuyn-killed-to-protect-Muslims.html
.

42
. Marlise Simons, “Behind the Veil: A Muslim Woman Speaks Out,”
New York Times
, November 9, 2002,
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/world/the-saturday-profile-behind-the-veil-a-muslim-woman-speaks-out.html?pagewanted=1
; “I Won’t Be Intimidated for Expressing My Views,”
Expatica
, September 27, 2004,
http://www.expatica.com/nl/main.htm
; Christopher Caldwell, “Daughter of the Enlightenment,”
New York Times
, March 3, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03ALI.html
; “Moving Stories: Ayaan Hirsi Ali,”
BBC News
, December 23, 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3322399.stm
; “Danger Women,”
The Guardian
(U.K.), May 17, 2005,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/may/17/religion.immigration
; Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
Infidel
(New York: Free Press, 2008), 285–86.

43
. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Grief and Anger over Theo’s Murder,”
International Herald Tribune
, November 11, 2004,
http://www.flameout.org/flameout/vangogh/griefandanger.html
; Ronald Rovers, “The Silencing of Theo van Gogh,”
Salon
, November 24, 2004; “Another Political Mrrder,”
The Economist
, November 6, 2004,
http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/24/vangogh/index.html
.

44
. “Threatened Dutch MP out of Hiding,”
BBC News
, January 18, 2005,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4183697.stm
.

45
. “Dutch Court Sentences Rappers over Threat lyrics,” Reuters, January 27, 2005; Marlise Simons, “Two Dutch Deputies on the Run, from Jihad Death Threats,”
New York Times
, March 4, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/international/europe/04hague.html
; “Threatened MP Wilders Gains Permanent Secured Housing,”
Expatica
, April 1, 2005,
https://www.osac.gov/News/story.cfm?contentID=26632&print&print
.

46
. Deborah Scroggings, “The Dutch-Muslim Culture War,”
The Nation
, June 9, 2005,
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050627/scroggins
; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “The Right to Offend,”
NRC Handelsblad
, February 14, 2006,
http://www.nrc.nl/opinie/article1654061.ece/The_Right_to_Offend
; Marlise Simons, “Immigration Debate Divides the Dutch,”
International Herald Tribune
, May 24, 2006.

47
. “PM Has ‘No Use’ for Hirsi Ali’s Cartoon Views,”
Expatica
, February 10, 2006,
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news/pm-has-no-use-for-hirsi-alis-cartoon-views-27556.html
.

48
. John Ward Anderson, “Discredited Somali Quits Dutch Politics,”
Washington Post
, May 17, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601872.html
; “Dutch Disease,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 16, 2006; “Muslim’s Loss of Dutch Citizenship Stirs Storm,”
New York Times
, May 18, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/world/europe/18dutch.html?sq=&st=nyt&scp=301&pagewanted=print
; “Intolerant Netherlands,”
Washington Post
, May 18, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/17/AR2006051701903.html
.

49
. “Dutch Forced to Rethink Decision on Somali-born MP,”
The Guardian
(U.K.), May 18, 2006,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/18/mainsection.international1
. Also see Hirsi Ali’s resignation speech, in “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘I Will Continue to Ask Uncomfortable Questions,’”
Middle East Quarterly
(Fall 2006),
http://www.meforum.org/1029/ayaan-hirsiali-i-will-continue-to-ask
; Marlise Simons, “Somali-Born Politician Allowed to Stay a Dutch Citizen,”
New York Times
, June 27, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/world/europe/28dutch.html?sq=Balkenende&st=nyt&scp=53&pagewanted=all
.

50
. “Hirsi Ali Says Thanks but No Thanks,”
Copenhagen Post
, October 17, 2007,
http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/17/1031928-hirsi-ali-says-thanks-but-no-thanks-by-the-copenhagen-post-october-17-2007-1000
.

51
. “Former Dutch Lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Seek Protection in France,”
Deutsche PresseAgentur
, February 10, 2008,
http://www.france24.com/en/20080210-ayaan-hirsi-ali-seeks-islaam-dutch-MP-former-french-protection-france
; Vanessa Mock, “EU Politicians Make Empty Promises to Hirsi Ali,”
Expatica
, February 15, 2008,
http://www.expatica.com/nl/lifestyle_leisure/news_focus/EU-politicians-make-empty-promises-to-Hirsi-Al.html?ppager=0
.

52
. “Man Gets Community Service for Death Threats to Dutch MP,”
AFP
, December 3, 2004; Gareth Harding, “Interview: Geert Wilders—the New Fortuyn?”
United Press International
, December 1, 2004; “Dutch Prosecutor Demands Jail Sentence for Death Threat Against Lawmaker,”
AFP
, November 19, 2004; “Dutch Shocked by Public Death Wish from Muslim,” Reuters, November 24, 2004.

53
. Daniel Schwammenthal, “An Ordinary Dutch Life,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 18, 2006.

54
. Marlise Simons, “2 Dutch Deputies on the Run from Jihad Death Threats,”
New York Times
, March 4, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/international/europe/04hague.html
; Christopher Caldwell, “Holland Daze,”
Weekly Standard
, December 27, 2004,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/059darxx.asp
.

55
. Keith B. Richburg, “In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes with a Price,”
Washington Post
, February 1, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52502-2005Jan31.html
; “Threatened MP Wilders Gains Permanent Secured Housing.”

56
. “Populist Politician Blasts Koran, Mohammed,”
Daily Telegraph
, February 14, 2007; Ian Traynor, “ ‘I Don’t Hate Muslims. I Hate Islam,’ says Holland’s Rising Political Star,”
The Guardian
(U.K.), February 17, 2008,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/17/netherlands.islam
.