Should Europe introduce a ‘right to blaspheme’?

Free Speech Debate by Oxford University

Jun 16, 201613:14Education

Alain Bouldoires talks to Timothy Garton Ash about the survival of blasphemy laws in Europe, and calls for a ‘right to blaspheme’.

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