February 08, 2006

Academic Freedom (Except to Criticize Islam)

Guest commentary by Inigo Montoya: Freedom. You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means. American professor fired for showing cartoons to students in UAE. Here is the money quote:

Shaikh Nahyan emphasised that there is freedom of opinion and expression in the UAE, as well as academic freedom enjoyed by all educational institutions, but what happened in Zayed University does not relate, in any sense, to any relevant concept of freedom.
In all honestly, it's not like American universities are much more free.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 04:39 PM | |