In this guest blog post for NJ.com, Muslim Chaplain James Yee discussed how important free speech is – even for Derek Fenton, who publicly burned a Quran at the World Trade Center site on the anniversary of 9/11:
“Like so many I know, I am profoundly grateful for the right that allows me to openly criticize those things I find reprehensible. It permits me to say that Fenton was wrong to burn the Quran, wrong to incite hatred and wrong to blame my faith, Islam, for the attacks on the World Trade Center.” Read the full post here:
http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2011/04/grateful_to_be_able_to_speak_f.html