How Religion, Racism and Tribalism Threaten Free Speech

In a panel discussion at Dartmouth College called “Are We Killing Free Speech?,” ARI’s Onkar Ghate appeared with ex-Muslim activist Yasmine Mohammed and talk show host Dave Rubin to discuss current free speech controversies. In a wide-ranging, hour-long discussion, the panelists touched on such issues as:

• The one-sided, leftist education delivered by most university faculties
• The fear of speaking out experienced by college students with unpopular opinions
• America’s failure to respond properly to the Rushdie affair, the Danish cartoons crisis and other Islamist threats to free speech
• How Christianity and Marxism have fostered today’s widespread victim mentality
• The spectacle of leftists fetishizing Muslim oppression of women
• The relationships among identity politics, racism and tribalism
• The motives of those promoting removal of Confederate monuments
• The valid meaning of the “melting pot” metaphor
• Multiculturalism: code word for anti-Americanism
• Is America basically Judeo-Christian or a nation of the Enlightenment?
• How respect for religion obstructs rational analysis of the Islamist threat
• What history tells us about the relation between religion and violence
• Trump’s denouncement of NFL teams who tolerate national anthem protests: free speech or veiled threat?

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