Extreme free-speech absolutism can trap reformers in self-contradiction

Evidence

A corollary of these views was that attempts to reconcile Islam with liberal and democratic values were necessarily flawed, as they were bound to end in hypocrisy. Finally, she attached such value to the truth that in her biography, published in 2006 soon after the affair with her passport, she admits to having been in the wrong in lying about her asylum story, since in the Netherlands she had ‘discovered that it is wrong not to tell the whole truth’. It is an astonishing admission, since she could not have written half that book without that very lie. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1673