Well, there was a program on Channel 4 tonight about Islam and freedom of speech. The question posed is “Do muslims threaten freedom of speech?”. The Channel 4 Dispatches forum made interesting reading afterwards.

Now that’s a bit of an inaccurate question, as there are most cetainly Muslims who hold moderate views and are not opposed to freedom of speech. With that said, there are no doubt members of every group, be it religious or political who wish that their critics would just shut up.

As I ‘ve said before, I think that religion is too important a matter to go uncriticised. I feel that conventional book based religions are, unfortunately, much too rigid to do much to fix the points raised.

For better, or worse, we live in interesting times.