I had better get my book to market before the anti-blasphemy movement makes it to this country:
Ever since 2006, when Muslims worldwide rioted over newspaper cartoons picturing the prophet Muhammad, Western countries, too, have been prosecuting more individuals for criticizing religion. The “Free World,” it appears, may be losing faith in free speech.
We can probably thank Tom Cruise for this one:
British citizens can be arrested and prosecuted under the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act, which makes it a crime to “abuse” religion. In 2008, a 15-year-old boy was arrested for holding up a sign reading “Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult” outside the organization’s London headquarters. Earlier this year, the British police issued a public warning that insulting Scientology would now be treated as a crime.
But more often it’s the Muslims:
Under an Austrian law criminalizing “degradation of religious doctrines,” the 51-year-old politician was sentenced in January to a fine of 24,000 euros ($31,000) and a three-month suspended prison term.
And also the Muslims:
In May 2008, Dutch prosecutors arrested cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot for insulting Christians and Muslims with a cartoon that caricatured a Christian fundamentalist and a Muslim fundamentalist as zombies who meet at an anti-gay rally and want to marry.
And occasionally it’s the Muslims:
And in India, authorities arrested the editor and publisher of the newspaper the Statesman for running an article by British journalist Johann Hari in which he wrote, “I don’t respect the idea that we should follow a ‘Prophet’ who at the age of 53 had sex with a 9-year-old girl, and ordered the murder of whole villages of Jews because they wouldn’t follow him.” In India, it is a crime to “outrage religious feelings.”
If there is an upside to all this, it’s that maybe I’ll get to meet Brigitte Bardot.
sigh, not the greatest sign to me…
3 mu’s over horsen around with a horse is a horse of course…
NOTHING here yet or did the law already go in effect? and should expect the free speech police to show up any second.
*shakes head, and cries*
so many worked and gave their lives to get us this far, all to be wasted over political correct whores of the day.
Kinda sad at how people start have’n time since food is no longer a scarcity, shelter is a normality, peace for the most part is found from MAD, for once civilizations reached these states…
begins to free up the minds to start taking on further needless claims as this is.
Ah well, did you finish your book, Joel? I feel pretty sure they wont complain to have more to throw on the bonfire’s like 1920′s, 1980′s, an perhaps the biggest ones yet to come…
kinda ironic that Najid writes about one sect of mu’s being more retarded than her version of the same coercen reterig.
Thanks for helping me, not feel so alone.
I’m sure you’d fine a place to ridcule something of mine, but before you try, its just all a matter of trying to enjoy my time, not converting others minds.
*yawns* sorry its past my bedtime, heh, and still have some work left to do.
Take Care, Joel
JC