Freedom From Religion

• Provides both the theoretical and historical background necessary for academic research and the concrete legal proposals useful to policymakers.
• Offers a country-by-country analysis in order to ground proposals in a helpful real-world context.
• Addresses Islamic, Christian, and Jewish varieties of extremism.
• Incorporates new developments since the first edition and responds to comments and criticisms from the first edition serve to highlight the clear and present danger posed by religious extremism.
• An updated preface signifying new developments in the context of religious extremism since the book was first published in 2009
• Foreword on the controversey surrounding South Park's 200th episode and its depiction of Muslims.

In Freedom From Religion, Amos N. Guiora invites readers to consider an unusual technique for curtailing the threat of new terrorist attacks: limiting freedom of religion and freedom of expression for religious extremists. Through concrete examples, Professor Guiora maintains that there exists a connection between politically-correct tolerance of extremist speech and the rise of terrorist activity, suggesting an even greater need for his unique proposal that governments should introduce new limits on religious practice within their borders.

To demonstrate the wisdom of this course, Professor Guiora presents the disparate policies and security circumstances of five countries: the U.S., the UK, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Israel. In setting forth his analysis, he addresses Islamic, Christian, and Jewish extremism. This candid account of such a controversial subject matter convincingly clarifies the relationship between freedom of speech and terrorism.

Readership: Academics, law students, those interested in constitutional law or religion and government.