Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons at the University of Chicago
April 25, 2006

Who: Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute; Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; and Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry magazine.

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

Where: Kent Chemical Laboratory Building, room 107, 1020 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

When: April 25, 2006, at 7 PM

Summary: ARI's Yaron Brook will participate in a panel discussion on the Mohammed cartoon controversy. He 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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