Putting Rights of Residents at Risk ; First Person Should This Man Have Been Locked Up? Paul Stevenson, of Hetts Solicitors, Considers the Response to the Recent Threats of Pastor Terry Jones [Edition 2]

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WHY on earth did America allow Pastor Terry Jones to inflame passions across half the globe? How could the leader of a fringe movement running a church so small his entire congregation can be carried on a single bus, be allowed to rise to such prominence? Worldwide he has created uproar in threatening to publicly burn the Koran.

The right to freedom of expression significantly differs in America to that of the UK.

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Putting Rights of Residents at Risk ; First Person Should This Man Have Been Locked Up? Paul Stevenson, of Hetts Solicitors, Considers the Response to the Recent Threats of Pastor Terry Jones [Edition 2]

Even our much-criticised Human Rights Act ensures freedom of expression is far from absolute.

It is always subject t...

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