LIBERTA' DI ESPRESSIONE LIBERTA' DI RELIGIONE: UNA QUESTIONE ISLAMICA?

The European legal tradition is increasingly called to face the composite Islamic experience that has acquired a stable presence in the “Old Continent”. Such confrontation, in the wake of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, should offer a chance not for a ‘clash of civilizations’ but for positive action towards the construction of a world where both freedom of speech and belief are safeguarded as foundations of human dignity. The thesis reflects on the controversial dialectics between freedom of expression and religious freedom, always striving for a counterbalance. The development of such dialectics has been undertaken analyzing the approaches of the United Nations, of European institutions, and of a number of legal sentences by National Courts as well as by the European Court of Justice.