Howard Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech

You can’t say that!
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-99879-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair and the events in 2015 in which a number of journalists and cartoonists were killed at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after the magazine had also published cartoons of Muhammad, have raised questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should be restricted to protect the religious feelings of believers. Can the right to freedom of expression be restricted to protect religions and religious believers from criticism, from offensive attacks on their beliefs? Where are the boundaries in cases of expressions which criticize or denounce religious beliefs or insult religious believers?

This book examines the relationship between freedom of expression and freedom of religion and religious hate speech using the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, and, where necessary, criticizing this case law to develop an answer to the central question. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion are both fundamental human rights, but neither right is an absolute right and both can be restricted under prescribed circumstances. The book sets out a case study of Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has been acquitted once for incitement to hatred and discrimination and group defamation, and now faces a new prosecution for remarks made during the local elections in March 2014. The last chapter in the book will apply all the previous chapters to this case study to illustrate where the line should be drawn between freedom of expression and religious hate speech.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, Erica

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion under the European Convention on Human Rights 3. Conflicts of rights? 4. (Religious) hate speech 5. Restrictions on freedom of expression to spare religious feelings 6. Do we need laws against (religious) hate speech? 7. Case in point: the prosecutions of Geert Wilders

Über Autor(innen)

Erica Howard, is an Associate Professor in law at Middlesex University, UK.