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27 Jan 06:00am

Filed under: Anti Discrimination Act, Censorship, Free Speech, Journalism, Stephen Conroy

It was one of the most confronting Australian news images of 2012. A little boy holding a placard reading “Behead all those who insult the Prophet”, standing among the hysterical crowd at the Sydney protests against an obscure art-house film ridiculing Mohammed.

An image worth discussing, and publishing. Source: Supllied

The discussion inspired by that image was impassioned. The child and, particularly, his parents were held up as evidence that something was seriously wrong within sections of our multicultural society.

The heated nature of the discussion was not surprising at all, even if some of it was unpleasantly over-the-top. But in a free society such as ours it was still a conversation worth having.

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Jane says:

05:00pm | 27/01/13

I get constently offendedby peoples actions in this society.The thing is I tend to just roll my eyes and realise It’ mostly becaue I am smarter,More creative and far more thoughtful.If I was to then become someone who felt the need to stand before a judge and whine about how… Read more »
tez says:

04:43pm | 27/01/13

What I don’t get is nobody here wants a law to stop them saying as they think but many here would love a law to remove poster like acrotel and alike, so what do you actually want all like minded ones that you can +1+1+1 to. Read more »

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