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Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Religion on May 1st, 2009
In 2007, Kareem Amer, an Egyptian blogger, was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty on several charges including ‘sedition’ and ‘incitement to hatred of Islam’. In March of this year, Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, a young Afghan journalist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Kabul’s supreme court for the crime of blasphemy. Kambakhsh’s [...]
Posted in Censorship, Faith, Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion on Mar 14th, 2009
A new proposal from Islamic states was circulated amongst Geneva diplomats last week as they attended the current session of the UN Human Rights Council. It is entitled “Combating defamation of religions,” and mentions only Islam. If adopted it would define any questioning of Islamic dogma as a human rights violation, which would intimidate dissenting [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Religion on May 24th, 2008
Spain is courageously seeking to follow a difficult path of modernization.
The Spanish government has announced plans to secularize the constitution and remove privileges that have been granted uniquely to the Roman Catholic Church.
When the Spanish government was sworn in last April, the Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero decided to take his oath [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Politics, Religion on Mar 16th, 2008
It took an arcane debate to the hasten the end of an arcane law, but that is what happened in the House of Lords on Wednesday 5 March when an amendment to repeal the UK blasphemy law was finally passed (148 votes to 87). The Christian tenets of the Church of England will no [...]
Posted in Censorship, Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion, Society on Jan 8th, 2008
British Members of Parliament are being asked to consider an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill to repeal the law of blasphemy.
There are several reasons why I have written to my MP urging him to support this amendment.
The law of blasphemous libel purports to protect beliefs rather than people or communities. [...]
Posted in Censorship, Religion, Television on Dec 4th, 2007
I thought it was bad enough with Teddybeargate. Now this. The religious, humourless, irony police are at it again.
An angry Italian priest has persuaded soft drinks company Red Bull to withdraw an advertisement setting its product in a nativity scene on the grounds it is disrespectful to Christianity.
Father Marco Damanti, from Sicily, wrote [...]
The talking plastic Jesus recites three verses from the Bible - Mark 12:30, Mark 12:31 and John 3:16 - each lasting 11 seconds or less, as well as a 59-second telling of the feeding of the 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes. It stands 30cm (1ft) tall and has a chest circumference of 20cm (7.75in). [...]
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