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PUBLIC MARKS from Mumvy with tag freedom

01 March 2006

WSJ.com - Barbarians Inside the Gate

In life, Ilan Halimi sold cellular phones on a boulevard named after Voltaire, off a square dedicated to la République. He was an ordinary young Frenchman, except for one thing; he was Jewish, which got him killed. So in death, after 25 days of torture

The Guardian: Not a peep from the professors

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I have a question that should be of interest to those concerned about the principle of academic freedom. How is one to account for the fact that when the administration at UPEI sent in the police to confiscate the copies of a recent edition of the stud

27 February 2006

The Liberty Letter: Those Darn Muslims

Comments on the response from Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island, to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

Letter from S. Qudsia (Koli) Hoogeveen to Wade McLauchlan, President UPEI

A "letter of thanks" from a pious Muslim woman to the President of the University of Prince Edward Island, originally posted on the official UPEI website, but removed on February 27, 2006. This URL leads to the page cached by Google.

25 February 2006

University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- News Digest -- (February 23, 2006)

Letter from the Society for Academic Freedom and Censorship to Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI, and MacLauchlan's response to SAFS, republished in the news digest of the University of Toronto.

Free Speech at Risk, Canadian Proessors Warn

As an academic -- and one, who as a child, was fortunate enough to have his parents take him from a "fear" to a "free" society -- I suggest that the principle of freedom of speech must be treasured over all other principles, especially in universities, wh

Free Speech at Risk, Canadian Proessors Warn

So Wade MacLauchlan, the president of the University of Prince Edward Island, believes that censoring student newspapers is the best way to prevent potential violence and help his university strive towards "an engaged and positive learning environment."

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I found it difficult to believe that the president of a Canadian university would come out so strongly against freedom of the press -- or as Wade MacLauchlan refers to it, "reckless free speech." What I found most offensive, however, was the way he tried

24 February 2006

Campuses must uphold free speech

Letter to the National Post. 24 Feb 2006, from Walter Bruno, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

Campuses must uphold free speech

Letter to the National Post. 24 Feb 2006, from Doreen Kimura, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship National Post

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Campuses must uphold free speech Letter to the National Post. 24 Feb 2006, from Jack Edwards, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

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Letter to the National Post, 24 Feb 2006, from Awrey, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

23 February 2006

snip’s snippets » Blog Archive » The Mohammed Cartoons: an ‘insiders perspective’

A response to a letter, posted on the website of the University of Prince Edward Island, from a Muslim woman to Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island.

22 February 2006

.:Private Revolution: Censorship on the Island

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Fear of possible "mob action" must not be allowed to dictate to UPEI or any other Canadian university what ideas its students and faculty may express, disseminate and debate. By censoring this debate at your campus rather than taking the necessary steps t

21 February 2006

Mark Steyn Online: Letter of the Week

Yesterday, my local university's student newspaper became the first paper in Canada to print the twelve "Muhammed" cartoons. Two hundred copies were picked up by students before the President and the student union/government agreed that the newsp

The Guardian: Some approved others condemned

In trying to understand the motives of those who have supported or opposed the publication of these cartoons we must realize that there are at least two sets of players on either side of the issue.

The Guardian: With every right comes responsibility

Published as a letter to the editor in the [Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island] Guardian, 21 Feb 2006. Contents of the initial, two-page letter of thanks to Mr. Wade MacLauchlan can be accessed at www.upei.ca/letter

20 February 2006

When fear cows the media - The Boston Globe

Rationalizations notwithstanding, the refusal of the US media to show the images at the heart of one of the most urgent stories of the day is not about restraint and good taste. It's about fear.

Telegraph | News | 'The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state'

For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.