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Iceland has legalized blasphemy, which had been criminalized under a 75-year-old law, despite some opposition from the country's churches:
A bill was put forward by the minority Pirate Party, which campaigns for internet and data freedom. It came after the deadly attack the same month against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris... As three members of the Pirate Party stood before parliament on Thursday, each said: "Je Suis Charlie", an expression used globally to express solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo victims. After the ruling, the party wrote on its blog (in Icelandic): "Iceland's parliament has now established the important message that freedom will not give in to bloody attacks." The blasphemy law had been in place since 1940, and anyone found guilty could have been sentenced to a fine or three months in prison.
The Catholic Church wrote in comments submitted after the bill was proposed: "Should freedom of expression go so far as to mean that the identity of a person of faith can be freely insulted, then personal freedom - as individuals or groups - is undermined." The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association said that the new law included provisions to ensure that people could still be prosecuted for hate speech. [...] In the 2013 election, [Iceland's Pirate Party] gained three MPs for the first time, and polls now say it is the most popular party in Iceland, with the support of 32.4% of the country. In 2013, its members drafted a law calling for whistleblower Edward Snowden to be granted Icelandic citizenship.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday July 05 2015, @12:48AM
No shit, just look at the stupid rebel flag ban crap in the USA. Just to make fun of the banners (and hopefully make people think) I suggested that "We should ban the American flag, more minorities have died by bombs dropped by those wearing an American flag so we should get rid of it for a rainbow flag of acceptance" and you should have seen how many were 100% for erasing the American flag.
So remember boys and girls, there will always be somebody that is offended, no matter what the material in question.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @08:34AM
I'm sorry, were you offended by the banning of the offensive Confederate Battle Flag of the Army of North Virginia? Kind of a reach for you, doncha think? Atrocities have been committed under the Stars and Stripes, but that flag never represented those things in the way that the racist slaver flags of the South did. So again, sorry you were offended for supporting slavery.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @04:09PM
just look at the stupid rebel flag ban crap in the USA
Do you mean the 'ban' were the flag of a failed insurrection is removed from State government buildings? or do you mean the 'ban' where sellers have voluntarily decided not to sell them?