Attorney and free speech advocate Deborah Weiss was across the street from the World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, when Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the center with hijacked airliners. She has worked for the Congressional Committee on House Oversight and national security think tanks, where her numerous publications include the monograph The Organization of […]
Free Speech Defender Deborah Weiss Discusses Kurt Westergaard and the Jihad against Free Speech
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard died July 14. His drawing of Islam’s prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban was among 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten on September 30, 2005 that enraged Muslims worldwide. The newspaper’s then-culture editor, Flemming Rose, who oversaw the cartoons’ publication, has documented in detail this Cartoon Crisis […]