Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-01-Speech-2-083"
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"Mr President, the representatives of the
and also the
have approved this report without necessarily agreeing with Mr Camre. The European Parliament must resolutely take the lead in upholding the right of freedom of speech. In a democracy, everyone must be free, and have the opportunity, to express their opinion on any subject, even if this opinion is felt by some to be disturbing.
Freedom of speech applies
to the representatives of the people. Not only is it their right, it is also their duty to place their electorate’s problems and complaints on the political agenda. Moreover, parliamentary immunity should be interpreted as broadly as possible, because MPs are not only active in an assembly, but also in the political arena in a broad sense, such as meetings, debates and any possible political and electoral communication.
Another worrying development is that any criticism of Islam meets with legal and other actions. Since the majority of Islamic states are not democracies, it is of particularly great importance that there should continue to be the possibility of debate within Europe on this religion’s potentially totalitarian, intolerant and archaic aspects."@en1
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