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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 Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Apr 28th, 2008
There was a report by Ruth Gledhill in the TimesOnline of a British citizen who was harassed when he converted to Christianity from Islam and who was then not taken seriously when he complained to the police. When locals threatened to burn his house down he was told by officers to “stop being a [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Philosophy, Religion, Society on Mar 7th, 2008
There are often calls for banning by ‘blind’ people who want to ban others but ensure that their own work is never banned. In their self-righteousness they fail to see the contradictions in their own position.
A recent example is Geert Wilders, the far-right founder of the Party for Freedom. Appealing to the higher [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 4th, 2008
The following article is so sickening, I thought it deserved wider publication. I am grateful to the National Secular Society for bringing it to my attention. I have argued in this blog before that you should not deny people free speech, but rather give them enough rope and allow them to [...]
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