A Think for a Thought

A court in the Turkish city of Istanbul has acquitted a 92-year-old academic of charges of insulting Muslim women and inciting religious hatred.
Archaeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Cig was prosecuted over a book in which she linked the wearing of headscarves with ancient Sumerian sexual rites.
Charges were brought against her by a Turkish lawyer who took offence at her 2005 book "My Reactions as a Citizen".
In the book Dr Cig said that headscarves were first worn more than 5,000 years ago by Sumerian priestesses who initiated young men into sex.
Although predominantly Muslim, Turkey is a secular state and headscarves are banned in government offices and universities.

Public forum is a scarry thing. Say something, anything, positive or negative, and someone is going to bring a suit against you. Or at least go public with condemnation and denouncemnet. If we think that it is bad now what will it be like when we are all hooked up direct to the internet and everything we think does not have to pass through our lips for the world to become aware of it all.