Slander
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In Saudi Arabia, a blogger named Raif Badawi, created a website known as “Free Saudi Liberals”. He was charged with violating the nation’s cyber crime law. He has been in prison since June of 2012 for allegedly insulting Islam through the website. Court documents revealed evidence against Badawi and included a post on the website…
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The modern day assault on the arts and entertainment field by Islamists began in 1989 with the issuance of a fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie, by the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. A fatwa is a religious decree issued by a recognized religious authority in Islam. In the case of Salman Rushdie, the fatwa called for…