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Moroccan bloggers react to Nichane verdict (Magharebia.com)

Magharebia has a roundup of Moroccan bloggers' reactions to the Nichane crisis. Personally, I am close to a free speech absolutist. While I do think that there should be actions in the law for slander and libel, I do not think that any speech should be criminal. And there are no "red lines" in a free society; all subjects are open to comment, including but not limited to Islam, Judaism, Christianity, the Holocaust, the King, the President, and whichever war your country is engaged in at the moment. The cure for unacceptable ideas is not government intervention, but truth and persuasion. That's why in this country we allow Nazis to march and Klansmen to rally, however antithetical their ideas are to American values and common decency.