Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

For the longest time we who grew up in the western world took it for granted. But today there is strong evident this same right is under threat. The threat is not external but internal, the result of a half-century culture war. The political/cultural Left seek to silence their political opponents, rather than debate them publicly; a very undemocratic stance. Why are they doing this? They are afraid their utopian ideas may not be accepted in the town square debate forum nor at the ballot box. So they have used the courts, hate speech laws, media, including social media, and the corporate world to suppress opponents and deliver for them the outcomes that the democratic process will not.   The road from free speech to censorship had a beginning. When Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US Presidential election, the Left complained about ‘Russian collusion’ and ‘fake news.’ Pressure was put on social media to ‘moderate content’ and ‘fact-check’ information. ‘Inconvenient’ news stories were s...

It was an instant best-seller. The January 5, 2018 release of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff became an instant best-seller. US President Donald Trump tried vigorously to stop the release of the book, which no doubt make it even more attractive, especially for the ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘never-Trump’ crowd. What are we to make of this book which is highly unflattering to the President? There are issues that are bigger than any one book, even if it is a runaway bestseller. Let’s remember a important issues. Freedom of Speech We should be solidly behind the notion of free speech, even though it means people can be offensive and obnoxious. Without this freedom, all other freedoms will be at risk, including freedom of religion, conscience, and association. Remember, however, in a free society there are justifiable limits to absolute free speech, like laws against liable, defamation, and perjury under oath. However, we face serious erosion o...

In our first part, entitled: ‘ You Bigot, Can Political Correctness Keep People from Being Offended,? ’ we looked at how political correctness tries to protect people (especially women, ethnic and sexual minorities) from being offended. As a result, ‘freedom of speech’ takes a big hit. Even the slim possibility that one minorities might be offended means the other party must be closed down verbally … just in case. In Part Two, entitled ‘ I’m Offended: What Should This Really Mean? ’ we learned a Biblical description about this miserable condition. It is a more sensible and far more enduring description than the politically correct one. Today, the broader cultural scene is about the ‘New Tolerance.’ Political correctness (PC) is the mother tongue of the ‘New Tolerance’ and those who lead the charge in politically correctness are the patron saints. Jonathan Sarfati in ‘ The Tyranny of Tolerance’ says  “ Not long ago, the word ‘ tolerance ’ meant ‘bearing or putting up ...