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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, @11:19PM (1 child)
That's asinine. That's like taking a chainsaw to the base of a tree, and then claiming that it wasn't you that downed the tree, it was gravity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:29AM
Speech cannot magically force someone to physically assault someone else. If you hear something offensive, you can choose how to respond to it. If you respond with physical violence, then that is entirely on you. That was the point.