Unveiling the Danish Cartoons:
A Discussion on Free Speech and World Reaction
March 13, 2006

Who: Ayn Rand Institute president Yaron Brook, The Objectivist Academic Center Dean Onkar Ghate, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Program Officer, Charles Mitchell, additional panelists.

What: (1). A display of the controversial Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed. (2). A panel discussion and Q&A on the meaning of the worldwide reaction to the cartoons.

Where: Johns Hopkins University: 110 Hodson Hall, Baltimore, Maryland.

When: Monday, March 13, 2006, at 7 PM

Summary: ARI's Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate will participate in a panel discussion on the Mohammed cartoon controversy. They will explain: Why the eruption of violence and the issuance of death threats make completely irrelevant the question of whether the cartoons are in bad taste. Why the idea that freedom of the press must be "coupled with press responsibility" means that free speech is not a right, but a fleeting permission. Why every Western newspaper and media outlet should have immediately re-published or shown the cartoons in solidarity with the cartoonists. Why the cowardly and appeasing response of many Western governments--including our own--will only invite further aggression. Other panelists will present their own views.

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