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Dillow, Chris 152

Does God Hate Women?
(Benson/Stangroom) 67, 68, 80–1

dotcom bubble (1990s) 162, 164

Dougans, Robert 244

Dowler, Milly 185

Downey, Lesley Ann 186, 187

Duke of Brunswick’s Rule (1849) 189–90, 201

East Pakistan 14

Economist, The
37, 164

Edward I, King 188–9

Edward VIII, King 255

Egypt 92, 95, 99, 100, 285, 266–7, 275

Ekho Moskvy 274

Ekstra Bladet
199–201

El Fagr
92

Elaine’s (restaurant) 181, 207

Elizabeth I, Queen 23

Ellsberg, Daniel 264

Eltahawy, Mona 52

English Defence League 115–16, 121–2

English PEN 245

Enlightenment, the 17, 23, 112, 113, 123, 135, 300

‘enlightenment fundamentalist’ xviii, 111, 112, 175

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus 19

Ernst, Edzard 233–8, 242

Europe, Islam and xviii, 17, 18, 32, 43, 46, 50–2, 61, 75, 79, 81, 93–5, 98–101, 104, 105, 107–10, 112, 113, 116–19, 121, 123–4, 138, 255; wealth in 146; ‘liberalism’ 193–4; libel actions in 197, 302; printing press and 270–4

European Union 93

expenses scandal, UK parliamentary 263

Facebook xv, xvi, 144, 190, 261, 266, 267, 288, 289

Falwell, Jerry 108

Farrelly, Paul 195

Farrow, Mia 207

fatwa, Rushdie and 12, 15–20, 24–5, 30, 35, 42, 43, 44–53, 136

FBI 75, 218

Feinberg, Joel 229

feminism xviii, 5, 10, 38, 42, 51–3, 64, 70, 81, 102, 104, 108–10, 122, 123, 135, 151

Feynman, Richard 153

financial crisis (2008) xviii–xix, 142, 143, 145–7, 154, 159–69, 286, 300–1

Financial Times
xviii, 164

Forbes
(magazine) 143, 156, 164, 203

Foreign Office, British 114, 256

Forster, E.M. 47

Foucault, Michel 171

4.48 Psychosis
(Kane) 281–2

France: Danish cartoon affair (2005) and 92–4; Enlightenment 113; National Front 116; libel laws 148; bans burqa 116, 119; Polanski and 181, 182, 207; Revolution 102, 103, 220, 273; law against denial of Armenian genocide 227; royal absolutism in 272, 273; racial hatred laws 296

Franco, General Francisco 45

Frank, Thomas 259

Franklin, Benjamin 220

Freedom House (human-rights organisation) 126

freedom of conscience 123–4, 131, 137

freedom of speech: Internet and xvii, 253, 256, 257, 266, 269, 297; religion and 31, 33, 36, 38–9, 58–9, 77, 88, 89, 92, 94–6, 114, 121, 123, 124, 126–7, 130, 131, 136, 138; money and 146, 149, 154, 171–2, 175, 188, 194, 196, 206, 216, 219–21, 226, 248–50
see also
censorship; libel law
and
United States Constitution

Freeland, Chrystia 148

Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It
(Ehrenfeld) 205–6

Gailey, Samantha 179, 180, 181

Galileo 34, 246–7

Gandhi, Indira 14

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) 213–14

Gandhi, Rajiv 13–14, 58

Gaza 93

Gazprom 147

Gellner, Ernest 24–5

Geneva Convention 293

Germany 37, 101, 147, 227, 273

Ghonim, Wael 267

Gibson Square (publishers) 79–80

Giggs, Ryan xiii–xvi, xxi, 276

Global Witness 203–4

globalisation, benefits of 144–5

globalising censorship:
The Satanic Verses
and 13–20; English libel law and 201–6; civilisations, clash of and 29–53; manufacturing offence and 54–97; racism and 98–138
see also
religion

Godwin, William 103

Goldacre, Ben 239, 243–4

Goldman Sachs 160

Goodwin, Fred xii–xiii, 154–9, 161, 165–6

Google 267, 276, 286, 287

Gray, Mr Justice 193

Greece 224; military dictatorship 4, 45; blasphemy law 126: free-speaking assembly of ancient 131, 170–1

Green, David Allen 198

Green, Sir Philip 142

Greenspan, Alan 160, 164, 168

Griffith-Jones, Mervyn 48

Guantánamo Bay xvi, 75, 293

Guardian
185, 239, 240–1

Guildford Four 193

Gun, Katherine 256

Gutenberg, Johannes 270, 272–3, 276

Haldane, Andrew 145

Halifax Building Society 166

Haughey, Charles 205

Hazlitt, William 193

HBOS (bank) 166–8

Heathrow Airport 257

Hemming, John xv

Hera, Sooreh 121

High Court, London 202, 275

Hindley, Myra 186, 187

Hinduism 9, 55–64, 130

Hindustan 60

Hitchens, Christopher ix, 31–3

Hitler, Adolf 59–61, 100, 129

Hizb ut-Tahir 49

Hobsbawm, Eric 5

Hofstad Network 107

Hoggart, Richard 47

Holland 4, 42, 101, 104–14, 116, 118, 120–1, 159, 194, 200, 302

Hollis, Martin 29

Holocaust 51, 75, 100, 104, 193, 227, 267, 296

Holt, Lord Chief Justice 219–20

homosexuality 5, 123; religious persecution of 5, 68–70, 75, 111, 121, 129–30; J.S. Mill and 172, 225, 226; UK law and 226–7

Howe, Geoffrey 37–8

Hubbard, L. Ron 202

Human Rights Watch 203

Husain, Maqbool Fida 54–65, 126

Hussaini Youth 77

Hussein, Saddam 38, 85, 293

Iceland 160–1

identity politics 58–9, 105, 110–11, 131–8, 210

Igarashi, Hitoshi 41, 43

immigration 12, 43, 51, 104, 108–10, 116–17, 119

Independent
192

Index on Censorship 245, 280

India xv: Rushdie and xvii, 6, 11–15, 18, 36, 40, 213–14; Husain and 54–65, 81; Constitution 61–2; criminal code 62; wealth 143, 146; energy companies in 146; protest in 213–14; homeopaths in 234; Internet in 277

inequalities of wealth 141–7, 161–2, 174–5

injunctions xi, xii; super- xii–xvi, xxi, 195, 196

Interfax news agency (Russia) 297

International Monetary fund 160

Internet: utopia/freedom of xv–xvi, xix–xxi, xxii, 201, 258–79, 303; super-injunctions and xiv–xvi; revolutions/political activism and xvi–xvii, 266–7, 269; China and
see
China; effect on old media 165, 188; libel law and 201; extra-territorial censorship and 239; War on Terror and 255–7; and the counter-revolution/suppression of 280–298, 303

Iran xvii, 80, 90, 120, 121; Revolution (1979) 6, 38; fatwa against Rushdie 15–20, 32 child marriage in 67–8; new wave 83; cartoons and 94–5; energy companies in 146; Internet in 266, 267, 283–5, 289, 290, 296

Iran–Iraq war (1980–88) 38, 300

Iraq 38, 49, 73, 87, 115, 254, 256, 300

Irving, David 193

Ishaq, Mohammad 56

Islam/Islamism/Islamists: Western liberals and xvii–xviii, xxi, 29–53, 72–7, 80, 81, 111, 151; women, attitude towards xviii, 7–11, 26, 29, 36, 39–41, 43, 45, 51, 52, 63–81, 87, 88, 90, 91, 96, 98–124, 126–30, 133, 135, 138; Western fear of xxi, 18–20, 30–81, 194, 255; blasphemy and 3–138;
Satanic Verses
and
see Satanic Verses, The
; fascism and 29; far-right ideology and 29; racism and 29, 98–130, 138; Western academics and 31, 44, 72–7, 80, 81, 111; and clash of civilisations 29–53; suicide bombers 47, 50, 73, 89, 90, 102, 108, 117–18, 185, 205, 254; Danish cartoon affair (2005) 49, 60, 79, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275; manufacturing offence 54–81

Islam4UK 114

Islamophobia 32–3, 45–6, 73, 75

Israel xx, 18, 33, 50, 75, 130, 255, 296

Jackson, Lord Justice 197

Jakobovits, Immanuel 37

Jamaat-e-Islami 14, 15, 31, 37, 40, 49, 72, 91, 114, 194

Japan 143, 147

Jefferson, Thomas 27–8, 216, 220

Jewel of Medina, The
(Jones) 64–7, 71–2, 76–9, 81, 114–15

Johnson, Lyndon B. 264

Jones, Sherry 64–7, 71–2, 78–81, 87, 126

journalism: English libel law and
see
libel law; wealthy and xii, xix, xxi, 146–8, 160, 161, 163–5, 188–201, 203–9, 242–3, 255, 275; Rushdie fatwa and 31, 44–6; fear of Islamism and 44–6, 49–50, 52, 60, 63–4, 74–6, 79–84, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275; Danish cartoon affair (2005) 49, 60, 79, 87–97, 119, 129, 255, 275; British political 183–4; phone hacking and 184–5; popular 184–7; deference and 187–8; alternative-health treatments and 236–47, 250, 276; Internet effect upon 262–9, 271, 273–98; investigative 183–201

Judaism 7–9, 14, 18, 29, 37, 74, 100, 102, 107, 111, 115, 129, 130

judiciary, libel law and xi–xv, xxii, 22, 23, 26, 188–209, 216, 238–43, 246–8, 250, 300; super-injunctions and xii–xvi, xxi, 195, 196; blasphemy and 126, 128; whistleblowers and 151; segregation and US 216–21; SLAPP actions and US 221–2