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By: azurefrog

azurefrog — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:35:35 +0000

His stigmata would get blood all over the wheel.

By: Silver Buttons

Silver Buttons — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:53:36 +0000

Howcome Jesus never drives? XD

By: Jesus and moe on defamation of religion | Vlad Tepes

Jesus and moe on defamation of religion | Vlad Tepes — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:08:51 +0000

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By: “Jesus and Mo” cartoon addresses “Defamation of Religion” :: International Free Press Society

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:28:14 +0000

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By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:13:10 +0000

Depressing update…

‘Roy Brown (of IHEU)… said: “The resolution is part of a wider campaign by the Islamic States to impose values on the rest of the international community which are largely unacceptable in liberal democracies. Freedom of Expression is protected in international law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 19 states that everyone has the right “to hold opinions without interference. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression.”’

By: Lady Mondegreen

Lady Mondegreen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:43:23 +0000

Overheard at the Human Rights Council, Geneva on 24 March 2009 during a discussionof the resolution “Combating Defamation of Religions”
NGO representative: “You can’t defame an object or an idea. You can’t defame a dead person, you can’t defame the Prophet Mohammed.”
Pakistani delegate: “That’s precisely why we need this resolution. He’s not around to defend himself!”

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:05:38 +0000

Kalam – what do you mean ‘nobody’? I can’t see anyone above who’s given an opinion on that, and wtf has it got to do with taking the piss out of islam?

You’re obviously not aware that there are no laws against holocaust denial in the UK – but why would you see it as a good thing that you could ‘downplay the holocaust’ anyway?

Double standard my arse – you’re just a retarded anti-semite.

By: Kalam

Kalam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:37:10 +0000

Nobody seems to have any problems with regulations criminalizing any nazi symbols or other stuff which may dare to downplay the holocaust?
Odd really how many seem to have a double standard…

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:17:25 +0000

Unnecessary Evil – that’s very pithy, and probably quite wise in many ways a lot of the time, but it’s meaningless to say you have freedom of speech if you also expect people not to practice it.

If, as soon as someone says something which someone else finds offensive, you say, ‘the practical limit to free speech is just before that’, then you’re saying freedom of speech is wrong. You can’t have it both ways.

By: Unnecessary Evil

Unnecessary Evil — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:07:26 +0000

Dan, it was Mark Twain who wrote: “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them”

By: Jerry w

Jerry w — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:53:38 +0000

Freedom of religion?
Freedom from religion?
At least I get to choose, so I’m going to ….. SPROING!

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:13:57 +0000

grouchy-one’s comment is apt.

TRiG.

By: grouchy-one

grouchy-one — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:01:59 +0000

Is it islam’s fault that it couldn’t get its global conquest and violent atrocities done with before the development of a mass media system?

By: Poor Richard

Poor Richard — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:06:35 +0000

We pay two very high prices for freedom of speech: we have to tolerate idiot TV preachers and put up with pornography. It’s worth it, of course, because without the First Amendment, all our freedoms are doomed. Morevoer, as Poor Richard says, “You never know from whence cometh your next revelation”

By: Anik

Anik — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:35:33 +0000

Submoron; many thanks for the link to Pat Condell’s site. How did I miss someone as sensible as he is?

By: Submoron

Submoron — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:34:37 +0000

Thanks Toast in the Machine. If anyone’s missed Pat Condell on the subject: http://patcondell.net/index.html is only two minutes long and well worth it!

By: Stonyground

Stonyground — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:06:20 +0000

In the modern world most religions are forced to pay lip service to the principle of free speech, not doing so makes them look bad. But really they are never very happy about it due to the fact that their beliefs lack any evidence and are often demonstrably untrue. This makes people pointing this out to them a bit annoying.

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:57:23 +0000

Hitch is interviewed about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n53-3QnhxZk. As the presenter points out at 3m25s, an extra layer of irony is that most of the nations that comprise the OIC are theological dictatorships. The block vote of religious dictators is being used – within a democratic system – to kill the freedom of the citizens of civilised democracies.

I think it takes more than a ‘SPROING!’ to sum this up.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:21:07 +0000

Damn right. Gotta make the whole world like Afghanistan, where Pervez Embaksh just got sentenced to 20 years in the slammer for the crime of dowloading material on women’s rights. And this is an improvement – his previous sentence was the death penalty. Gotta shut everybody up. Shut up shut up shut up.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:44:17 +0000

Jim you asked “What is it with religions and freedom of speech?”

Essentially as far as I can tell, most religions believe God gave us free-will and the best way we should express our thanks is to suppress it.