The Aftermath of Charlie Hebdo
By Paul Marshall – A speech delivered to The King’s College in 2015, (Republished with permission)
Paul Marshall is the Wilson Distinguished Professor of Religious Freedom and research Professor in Political Science at Baylor University, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, Senior Fellow at the Leimena Institute, Jakarta, and Visiting Professor at the Christian University of Indonesia. He is the author and editor of more than 20 books on religion and politics, especially religious freedom, including recently Persecuted (Thomas Nelson, 2013), Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2011), Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion (Oxford University Press, 2009), Religious Freedom in the World (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
He is the author of several hundred articles, and his writings have been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. He is in frequent demand for lectures and media appearances, including interviews on ABC Evening News; CNN; PBS; Fox; the British, Australian, Canadian, South African, and Japanese Broadcasting Corporations; and Al Jazeera, among many other outlets. His work has been published in, or the subject of, articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Economist, Times, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Boston Globe, New Republic, Weekly Standard, Reader’s Digest, and many other newspapers and magazines.