Defending Freedom of Speech: The “Innocence of Muslims” Debate

Tom Herrenberg, Leiden University Law School, has published Denouncing Divinity: Blasphemy, Human Rights, and the Struggle of Political Leaders to Defend Freedom of Speech in the Case of Innocence of Muslims, at 2015 Ancilla Iuris 1. Here is the abstract.

This article is about freedom of speech and the political responses to the blasphemous Innocence of Muslims video, which sparked international controversy in the fall of 2012. This article discusses a number of these political statements against the background of human rights standards.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.