Any Benefit To The Cartoon Controversy?

As civilizations clash, Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch sees the human tragedy might provide an opportunity to learn.

Freedom of Speech:A Teaching Moment

The cartoon controversy has created a teaching moment in American high schools and universities.

History teachers, civics teachers, government teachers, do the following:

Print out relevant sections from Milton's Areopagitica ("I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue" etc.), the trial of John Peter Zenger, the Virginia Remonstrances, and John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty."

Now print out the First Amendment of the Constitution (1791).

Now print out the French Declaration of the Rights of Man (1792).

Now print out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Now print out the Muslim answer to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is to say the "Cairo Declaration of Human Rights.”

Xerox enough copies for every member of every class you teach.

Collate, and collect. Staple.

Now distribute to classes.

I'm curious how many teaching professionals will take this up.

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Thanks to Front Page Mag.