Henry Hyde Quotes
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
Henry Hyde, U. S. Congressman (Republican, IL), Speech May 3, 1991
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She was defending the right various media to display cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad which were very offensive to orthodox and traditional Muslims, many of whom had rioted in countries the world over. Many media outlets thought the cartoons too offensive to be displayed; others were too intimidated to display the cartoons and some displayed them anyway. Ali, born and brought up as a Muslim was one of the relatively few of that religion to defend the right of the publishers,
Many Turks deny that there was a genocide and claim that the Armenians were conspiring with the Turkish Russian enemies. In order to stop the public discussion of the subject, they went to a local court and got a judge to rule that they could not use a public university for such a controversial subject. The Prime Minister and other Turkish leaders were outraged. Quickly a private university offered to provide the facility for the event with the original participants still involved. However Erdogan has had two political faces in his career—one as a moderate reformer where freedom of speech was values, and the other as the head of an Islamic political party where Islamic law makes some kinds of speech a capital crime (Heresy and blasphemy).
The 1st Amendment is almost absolute in its protection of speech. However, ironically the Untied States has much less internecine conflict with minorities better off than the nations where hate speech is illegal and criminal.
Henry John Hyde was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs. He was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, and the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007. He is most famous for writing the Hyde Amendment, as a vocal abortion opponent.
