Blasphemy Law Quotes
She was originally Egyptian but because of her criticism, her citizenship was actually revoked.
His call for the Pope’s assassination in a public meeting produced counter-protests all over England. Choudary had earlier threatened British Jews. See {615445}.
This is a typical law in most modern Muslim countries. Essentially, Muslim Sharia Law prohibits any insult to the Prophet, the Koran and other sayings of the Prophet. This law of course, violates the UN Declaration of Human rights and freedom oriented counties tend to deride the restrictions of freedom of speech and expression. However, to show that the Muslim nation is being “fair”, laws like this one supposedly “protect” people of other religions from the wounding of religious feelings when their religion is slandered. Christians and other non-Muslims are prosecuted commonly. At the same time, ultra-fundamentalist Muslim clerics and teachers at religious schools commonly preach hate and desecration of Christianity, Judiasm, and Hinduism commonly. None are ever prosecuted.
This quotation illustrates two interesting facets of colonial politics. First, as in modern times, the title of an act often was inconsistent with the substance, and in many cases, this act among them, the act itself completely contradicts the implication of the title. The draconian intolerance exhibited by this clause was typical of the targets of the framers of the Constitution in erecting the separation of church and state. The fascinating thing about this act is another clause which acknowledged the difficulty of enforcing a common religion, and allowed that no one should be
