ABSTRACT
In the West, it was a matter of possibly the single most important principle of modern liberal ideology, freedom of speech. Even if freedom of speech is the ticket of admission, a good number of Muslims, some of them in positions of authority or prominence, have the credentials to enter. Ideals such as the pursuit of happiness and freedom of speech have been vital to all immigrant societies, making up for the absence of shared ethnic bonds by providing the population with a common purpose. To integrate into the West, Muslims need not forego their faith, but they must accept the supremacy of civil law-and freedom of speech is a critical element of that law. By similar token, when fundamentalists say that blasphemy is definitely against freedom of expression, freedom of expression essentially means the freedom to make statements which offend no political, religious or sexual sensibilities.
