1000 Lashes
Because I Say What I Think
- ISBN: 9781771642095
- Tags: Ahmad Danny Ramadan, Ahmed Danny Ramadan, Current Affairs & Politics, Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, Raif Badawi,
- Dimensions: 4.5 x 7.5
- Published On: 7/17/2015
- 88 Pages
"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imprisonment. But he must also be read, so that we understand the struggle within Islam between suffocating orthodoxy and free expression, and make sure we find ourselves on the right side of that struggle." -Salmon Rushdie
"Badawi writes for his generation, and for all those interested in changing the Arab and Islamic world for the better.” -Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Heretic and Infidel
"By continually putting himself in the place of the other, Badawi shows us that the fight for personal and intellectual freedom is never someone else’s job, somewhere else. His exhilarating call to action is a reminder that liberty everywhere is always a work in progress.” -The Globe and Mail
"Badawi’s writings are refreshing...This slim but fascinating and informative volume clearly brings home the consequences of our benign neglect of the Saudi totalitarian situation.” -Library Journal
"Necessary reading for anyone who wants to better understand a state that many Western countries consider an ally." -Publishers Weekly
Freedom of Speech is the air that any thinker breathers: it’s the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual’s thoughts.
Throughout the past centuries, nations and societies advanced through the work of their intellectuals, who present their ideas and philosophies. The people, thereafter, can pick from that pool of viewpoints whichever intellectual style suits then; they can even develop it to reach the deep seas of knowledge, progress, civilization, and prosperity.
Many civilizations and human rights organizations believe that freedom of speech is a basic human right, and they call upon Arab regimes to reform their policies when it comes to freedom of speech. As a human being you have the right to express yourself. You have the right to journey wherever your mind wanders and to express the thoughts you come up with along the way. You have the right to believe, and to atone, the same way you have the right to love and to hate. You have the right to be a liberal, or to be an Islamist.
