GARETH VAN ONSELEN: AfriForum’s ugly authoritarianism
Debate, debunk, dismiss, decry ideas all you like — but mock religion, well, that is freedom of speech taken too far
23 December 2020 - 07:18
Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s head of policy and action, recently took issue with the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) for publishing a series of articles he argued constituted a decision to “ridicule God and mock his believers”.
He said, “The IRR is supposed to be on the right side of history, but positioning itself as a platform and a voice for anti-Christianity and anti-religion is exactly the opposite.”..
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