MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
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MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism is a political statement made in response to the violence surrounding the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. The signatories said they issued the letter to demonstrate that there is a need to fight for secular values and personal freedom.[1][2] The letter was published in the French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and warns against Islamic "totalitarianism".[3]
The Charlie Hebdo magazine was one of several European papers to reprint the caricatures. Its right to publish these was contested by the French Muslim Council, who tried, but failed to get a court to ban the publication.[4]
[edit] Statement signatories
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali Dutch author and film maker;
- Chahla Chafiq, an Iranian author (exiled in France);
- Caroline Fourest, a French journalist and editor;
- Bernard-Henri Lévy, a French intellectual;
- Irshad Manji, a Canadian author, journalist, and activist;
- Mehdi Mozaffari, an Iranian academic (exiled in Denmark);
- Maryam Namazie, an Iranian Communist human rights activist;
- Taslima Nasreen, a Bengali Bangladeshi physician, author and human rights activist;
- Salman Rushdie, a British-Indian essayist and bestselling author of fiction;
- Antoine Sfeir, Lebanese French writer, political economist and journalist;
- Philippe Val, a French journalist and editor;
- Ibn Warraq (pen name), a bestselling historian and social critic (exiled in the United States).
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