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As the days go by our hard won freedoms and liberty are slowly being eroded. In Europe a crushing blow has been made to freedom of speech with a European Court of Human Rights upholding a conviction for saying that the person known as Muhammad ten centuries ago was technically a paedophile based on information in historical texts. The statement was made in reference to Muhammad's marriage to a six year old child name called Aisha. The court found that “Presenting objects of religious worship in a provocative way capable of hurting the feelings of the followers of that religion could be conceived as a malicious violation of the spirit of tolerance, which was one of the bases of a democratic society.”. In giving its ruling that "Muhammad was not a worthy subject of worship" the court has additionally demonstrated a complete misunderstanding as to the religion involved which worships "Allah", a word meaning 'God', not 'Muhammad' who claimed to be a prophet of this god. Freedom of speech is dying.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 13 2018, @03:15PM (16 children)
I was not aware it said that. Yes, people should make fun of muslims for that.
It seems that the creators of South Park really shouldn't travel to Europe. They've lampooned Catholics, Mormons, Scientologists, and others.
These are well-established historical facts:
1. Muhammed had sex with a young girl. That makes him a literal paedophile. He wrote in the Koran that Allah said he could do it, which rather means Allah condones paedophilia.
2. Ancient Greek men had sex with young boys. That makes them literal paedophiles. The boys were called catamites. It was a well-established institution called pederasty.
3. Ancient Israelites ethnically cleansed Canaan after the Exodus. It is recorded in Deuteronomy (Amorites, the Horims, others). They wrote that Yahweh told them to, which rather means Yahweh condones ethnic cleansing. This is in the Christian Bible also. The book of Genesis also reports that Lot impregnated his daughters.
There, I stated a handful of facts that impugn three major world religions and the culture considered the font of the Western tradition. Anyone can go and read the proof in their texts. Should Europe now imprison me, too, for the evidence those parties gave against themselves?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @03:36PM
Muhammad probably just saw that people he met had been getting shorter the last few generations (perhaps some nutritional issue?) and extrapolated back to the time of adam. This is the same procedure as used by climate science to predict the earth will suffer a runaway greenhouse effect like venus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @03:44PM (1 child)
There, I stated a handful of facts that impugn three major world religions and the culture considered the font of the Western tradition. Anyone can go and read the proof in their texts. Should Europe now imprison me, too, for the evidence those parties gave against themselves?
Only if you don't pay your EUR 4.00 / day fine.
I agree the motives of the person pointing out that the prophet Mohammed was a pedophile are beyond suspect, and maybe they should be convicted of inciting hatred (or whatever), as motives do matter when considering speach (think "yelling fire in a theater" just to watch the people run, vs. "yelling fire in a theater" when the place is actually on fire), but the idea that one cannot point out that he was, factually and by the words of their own religious texts, a pedophile is a bit much to put it mildly. And I say that despising these right-wing groups and all they stand for ... exactly as much as I despise religion, and all it stands for (which is arguably the same thing, as the vast majority of religions are just other kinds of hate groups, by other names. "You're not chosen of God/Faithful/Righteous enough, we shall look down upon you (or worse if you way anything that points out our Emperor wears no clothes)").
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @06:32PM
That's not even remotely analogous. The argument people use in favor of punishing people for falsely yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater and causing a panic is that it creates imminent danger to others because they can't evaluate the situation quickly enough. Talking badly about a certain group of people, regardless of one's intentions, does not usually result in imminent danger (keyword: imminent) to that group of people. Because of that, the intentions there are irrelevant. If we're going to ban any speech, the imminent lawlessness standard is better. Merely inciting hatred should not be illegal.
(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:08PM
Did Muhammad really have any sex with people other than Khadija? After all, he had children only from her. Maybe he had fictive marriages with those other women for political reasons, or to provide refuge for them.. As far as gender equality is concerned he was a lot more forward thinking than most Arabs either in middle ages or nowadays.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:19PM (2 children)
The only item in that list that is a well-established historical fact (as opposed to just found in some religious text) is the one about the ancient Greek men.
No, you didn't. Two of your items don't state established facts, but religious myths that may or may not be based on actual facts. And for the one item that does state established facts: I'm not aware of any world religion that gives special religious significance to ancient Greek men.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @06:02PM (1 child)
the pederasty "of the greeks" was pushed by socrates (or whichever one it was) within his school/cult and was only widespread in that school/cult. it was not appreciated by the rest of the population and was attacked and i think this Head Pederast was either exiled or killed or somethin'. acting like a high percentage of greek men were pederasts is just antiwhite propaganda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:57AM
The parent post is just completely wrong. So inaccurate that only an islamophobic white supremacist could have written it. Stupid white people, and the horses they ride in on, if you get my drift.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:29PM (1 child)
Why do some guys name their junk?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @06:10PM
The same way your mama named you "my little boy", "my little plaything" etc
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @06:29PM (3 children)
According to the quoted court statement above, the ruling upheld was against much more inflammatory speech than your fact based neutral presentation. IOW, its not what you're saying but how you say it.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 13 2018, @10:25PM (2 children)
So now we're convicting people based not on ideas or facts but on a turn of phrase? That's absurd and dangerous and anathema to a free society.
Honestly, if Muslims don't like people in free societies saying things about their religion that they don't like, they can either A) decide to not give a shit (like the rest of us do when others criticize our religions) or B) stay in their perfect Muslim societies where they're free to stone blasphemers to death or whatever capital punishment they mete out. They do not get to invite themselves to our free societies and then presume that their particular cows are more sacred than anyone else's.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @03:56AM (1 child)
May I suggest you thank your lucky stars that Donald Trump is your President then. Only Trump has the guts to call for a Muslim ban and call out this kind of pandering to the whims of what amounts to foreign guests. It's only the Democrats that pray at the alter of multiculturalism and seek to punish anyone who disagrees with their policies of self loathing, self destruction and rejection of free speech rights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:01AM
Are you saying that your pedophile leader says it's alright to say that their prophet was a pedophile? Trump has no guts, he is just scared from watching Fox News, as are you, evidently. Berlusconi.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday November 14 2018, @03:13AM
t. Herodotus
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:20AM (1 child)
As long as it isn't Comic Sans...
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:43PM
font [merriam-webster.com]:
Though, these days I'd say the preferred font of the Western tradition is dingbats. I mean, obviously.
Washington DC delenda est.