【民權抗爭】篇 Struggles for Civil Rights
丹麥漫畫風波
Bloody Cartoons
丹麥、挪威 Denmark - Norway | 2007 | 52 min | Karsten Kjaer
「為什麼要民主」系列紀錄片
‘Why Democracy?’ Documentary Series
丹麥漫畫事件挑戰了言論自由的上限。言論自由是民主政治的基本原則,但這表示了無限制的自由嗎?民主為言論自由要付出什麼代價?某些民主價值是優先於其他價值嗎?引發伊斯蘭世界抗議的丹麥報紙漫畫事件讓這些問題浮上檯面。
12 幅漫畫能引起什麼危機? 2005 年 9 月 30 日丹麥報紙 Jyllends-Posten 刊登了關於伊斯蘭教創始人穆罕默德的諷刺漫畫,漫畫中將這位先知戴上炸彈圖案頭巾,文字敘述穆罕默德向死去的炸彈客表示,用來慰勞自殺攻擊者的處女已經用完。這幾幅漫畫對伊斯蘭教的嚴重褻瀆,於伊斯蘭教國家引起宣然大波,他們集體向丹麥首相表達強烈抗議,穆斯林與西方國家的衝突再次被挑起。
民主國家憲法保障言論自由,但是不實的誹謗、仇恨言論也在被保護之列嗎?淫穢的語言是否在被保護之列?誰來界定什麼是誹謗、挑起仇恨或是淫穢的語言呢?本片將引起對言論自由的多方思考。
Bloody Cartoons is a documentary about how and why 12 drawings in a Danish provincial newspaper could whirl a small country into a confrontation with Muslims all over the world. This investigative documentary looks at the explosive consequences of beliefs colliding in contemporary democratic states. Director Karsten Kjaer asks whether respect for Islam combined with the heated response to the cartoons is now leading us towards self-censorship. Kjaer films in Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar, France, Turkey and Denmark and talks to some of the people that played key roles during the cartoon crisis.