Muslims want to make “blasphemy” illegal
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Via The Information Paradox: Free Speech; Antithesis of Muslim Faith, and as much as that shouldn’t be true, Muslims seem to be absolutely eager to bend over backwards to prove that it is.
Religion News Blog: Muslim nations consider legal instrument to crack down on defamation of Islam
Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world’s Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. It was a key issue during a two-day summit that ended Friday in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.
The Muslim leaders are attempting to demand redress from nations such as Denmark, which allowed the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and again last month, to the fury of the Muslim world.
The problem is, guys, that “blasphemy” is in the eye of the beholder. Muslims see blasphemy everywhere. Saying there is no god is blasphemy. Saying Jesus was the Messiah is blasphemy. Saying Hitler was an evil, genocidal monster and the Holocaust was real and must never be repeated is blasphemy. (Muslim fanatics love Hitler, and the President of Iran doesn’t believe the Holocaust happened, an opinion which seems to be popular in the Islamic media.) And when “blasphemy” against Muslims becomes illegal in Western countries, guess what happens next? Not being a Muslim becomes illegal. Which is what the Muslims have always wanted in the first place, since they can’t stand the idea of other religious groups being allowed to exist — especially the Jews — hypocrites much?
Like Pat Condell, I hope Europe can find the guts to stand up for freedom of speech and freedom of religion before they lose both.
Tags: Muslims
March 15th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Sadly, some Western nations’ laws remain extremely backwards on the issue of “blasphemy”. I thought that only Britain was quite so terrible, as seen by the fact that someone was criminally convicted for blasphemy as late as 1977 in England. It was enough of an outrage that Britain did not respond by getting rid of the law immediately but instead chose to wait until this year to scrap a law that has no place in any society that claims to be a great democracy. I was shocked, however, to discover that Dutch law is only now being changed to cease to criminalise blasphemy. Has the entire world failed to recognise until now that theism and the criminal code do not mix well?