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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: 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.