Dear Louis Happy new year to you too :) On 17 Jan 2015 19:56, "Louis Desjardins" <<a href="mailto:louis.desjardins@gmail.com">louis.desjardins@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > 2015-01-15 10:31 GMT-05:00 Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>>: >> >> Hi > > > Hi Dave, > > First of all, happy new year to you! >> >> >> To elaborate, in my personal view, much of Europe there are hate speech laws restricting free speech that offends Judeo-Christians, and I sympathise with much of the hipocracy accusations on this topic since those laws are enforced with state violence. >> >> >> But that isn't material to LGM. What is, is that I hope to work on more libre Arabic fonts this year and in the future, and I would like Muslim designers to feel welcome at LGM. I don't think involvement in this issue would help with that. > > > I respectfully and friendly suggest you are missing some important informations to make such a statement. > > There is no need to insist on the fact of being a "Muslim designer" in order to be able to collaborate to the development of Arabic fonts since Muslim refers to a religion and in the specific case you are talking about we are referring to language. I didn't insist that a person needs to follow a religion to design a typeface, and I apologise if I implied it. I can see how what I wrote can be read as mixing a possibly with a certainty. Yet this is an aside and my point remains: that if lgm is to be a global summit where everyone is welcome, lgms organisers should not get involved in stuff which offends people who follow major global religions.