[antimedia] antimedia: Bruce Kesler highlights....

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Bruce Kesler highlights....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1159333341.shtml


   ....an [1]honest Arab reporter who was asked how free he was to report
   the news. The title of his response is [2]Community Censorship Plagues
   the House of Islam.
   If that doesn't tell you enough, this quote, highlighted by Bruce,
   will.

     Freedom of the press in the Muslim world cannot be separated from
     freedom of expression in general. Journalists, due to their
     conspicuous public role, risk their lives everyday. They have been
     targeted and killed in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
     Palestine, Somalia, Sudan and other countries. The Muslim world is
     not a friendly place for freedom of speech at all.
     Journalists, creative writers and artists all share the same fate.
     The writer in a Muslim society is in shackles. Every time I put pen
     to paper it is a struggle against the tyranny of community-imposed
     self-censorship. Nowhere is Rousseau's statement that "Man is born
     free; and everywhere he is in chains," truer than in the House of
     Islam.

   Here is a man whose well-being is threatened merely by telling the
   truth. Yet, here in America, where journalists are free to write
   anything they want, the truth is seldom told.
   Who is more courageous?

References

   1. http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/002819.html
   2. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/bashir_goth/2006/09/working_under_the_tyranny_of_s.html