{"id":1682,"date":"2004-11-02T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:38:47","slug":"1682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/1682\/","title":{"rendered":"An Attack on Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse, the headline &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6388253\/\" target=\"_new\">Dutch filmmaker accused of ridiculing Islam slain<\/a>&#8220;, with its passive voice implication that maybe he had it coming to him since he was, after all, accused of ridiculing Islam, or the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A controversial Dutch filmmaker accused by Muslims of ridiculing their religion was stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam on Tuesday, shocking the Netherlands where <b>the killing was denounced as an attack on free speech<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pardon my Midwestern simplicity here, but I think that a more basic right was violated somewhere along the line.  But to some people, the metaphor&#8217;s more important than the concrete, and the abstract more important than the specific, and you cannot suffer along with the oppressed dead guy if it&#8217;s just murder&#8211;but if it&#8217;s suppression of free speech, it&#8217;s just like Bush&#8217;s America!<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/018881.php\" target=\"_new\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse, the headline &#8220;Dutch filmmaker accused of ridiculing Islam slain&#8220;, with its passive voice implication that maybe he had it coming to him since he was, after all, accused of ridiculing Islam, or the first paragraph: A controversial Dutch filmmaker accused by Muslims of ridiculing their religion was stabbed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16952,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/16952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}