Bigoted speech should be countered morally and politically, not legally.

Evidence

We certainly need to resist all attempts to use criticism of Islam to demonize Muslims. But criticism, of whatever kind, even if it is hateful or bigoted, should be seen as a moral and political, not legal, issue. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 671

Categorization

• DEFINE: Stakes out a clear position in the speech-regulation debate within the Islamophobia literature.
• XREF: connects to: Policing speech obscures the line between offence, hatred, and violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 655; Giving up the right to offend forfeits the power to challenge injustice. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 661; Hateful criticism should be answered politically, not legally — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 666 (+3 more)

Related

• Hateful criticism should be answered politically, not legally (similarity 0.93)
• Policing speech obscures the line between offence, hatred, and violence. (similarity 0.85)
• Giving up the right to offend forfeits the power to challenge injustice. (similarity 0.83)
• Plural societies need maximal free speech, not speech limits (similarity 0.82)
• Criticism of religious ideas should never be restricted as Islamophobic (similarity 0.82)
• Censoring bigotry makes opponents complacent and shirks the work of countering it. (similarity 0.82)
• Opponents argue Islamophobia labels are deployed politically to suppress legitimate criticism. (similarity 0.80)
• Fighting Islamophobia need not stifle legitimate criticism of Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobic speech draws less social reprimand than other bigoted expressions (similarity 0.79)
• Rushdie argues the Islamophobia concept protects the intolerant and punishes critics (similarity 0.79)
• Offensive speech about Muslims is often labelled Islamophobic. (similarity 0.79)
• Legal censorship lets anti-racists abandon open argument against prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Pluralism is often invoked to justify policing speech about other groups’ beliefs. (similarity 0.79)
• Western hate and Holocaust-denial laws contradict the ridicule of Muslim demands for speech limits. (similarity 0.79)
• The term ‘Islamophobia’ conflates criticism of Islam with hatred of Muslims (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Hateful criticism should be answered politically, not legally #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 666
• Censoring bigotry makes opponents complacent and shirks the work of countering it. #corroborates (0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 680
• Islamophobia is political rather than religious and must be fought politically #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 576
• Plural societies need maximal free speech, not speech limits #corroborates (0.72) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 653