Editor Beheaded
Mohammed Taha, the editor of the daily al-wifaq in Khartoum, was kidnapped yesterday and his beheaded body was found later. It saddens me that this is another attack on the freedom of the press. The press, the media, all of us cannot be cowed by attempts to muzzle the freedom to write what we think, we should be allowed to debate issues, to mock, to criticize. Unfortunately mohammed's murder looks like it might be connected with an article he wrote that cast doubt on the prophet Mohammed's ancestry. He was tried for blasphemy for that and fined. We cannot bow our knees to any attempts to censor the press whether it's an attempt by a sleazy politician to hide from the electors their wrongdoing or the attempts of various insecure religions to quash any other thought than their supposedly divine thought. Another article here.
Mohammed Taha, the editor of the daily al-wifaq in Khartoum, was kidnapped yesterday and his beheaded body was found later. It saddens me that this is another attack on the freedom of the press. The press, the media, all of us cannot be cowed by attempts to muzzle the freedom to write what we think, we should be allowed to debate issues, to mock, to criticize. Unfortunately mohammed's murder looks like it might be connected with an article he wrote that cast doubt on the prophet Mohammed's ancestry. He was tried for blasphemy for that and fined. We cannot bow our knees to any attempts to censor the press whether it's an attempt by a sleazy politician to hide from the electors their wrongdoing or the attempts of various insecure religions to quash any other thought than their supposedly divine thought. Another article here.
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