China has limited coverage of the Egypt protest to its Xinhua news service and warned last week that websites that did not censor comments about Egypt would be 'shut down by force.'

My name is JJ and I am (sometimes against all odds) a participant of a news blog on the internet.

"Freedom of thought and speech on campus, he says, which are so essential to the free exchange of ideas and wrestling with knowledge that take place in any university worth its name, are under assault.

Iran has imposed new restrictions on 12 university social sciences deemed to be based on Western schools of thought and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings, state radio reported Sunday.

We in the West usually take movies for granted and accord them little more significance than mere entertainment. But our Islamic enemies, like the Communists and Nazis before them, fully recognize the cultural power of cinema and work hard to control it.

Police turned a planned press conference against Palestinian Authority government policy into an illegal rally – and then banned it, injuring participants in the process.

Veteran journalist Khaled Abu Toameh laments Big Media's lack of interest in a story about the PA arresting several university lecturers.

The Defamation of Religion resolution is a free pass for Islamists to continue denigrating other religions and minorities through lawful Islamism.

Minister of Justice Jeff Radebe said on Sunday government will not pass laws that are unconstitutional.

Radebe was trying to allay the fears of journalists about the proposed Protection of Information Bill.

From AtheistMediaBlog: Video clip of Fox News broadcast with Father Jonathan Morris. Should Comedy Central self-censor? Is there an inappropriate double standard if satirical depictions of Mohammed are censored, but satire of Christ is permitted?

(In light of Comedy Central's selective censorship of the image of Mohammed while allowing those of other religions, this interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone "on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion" is still relevant today, and provides more background into th …

"CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to author Ayaan Hirsi Ali about an Islamic website's warning to the 'South Park' creators"