The shameful story of Britain’s backdoor blasphemy laws

Mar 13, 2023 by

by Tom Slater, spiked: Liberal cowardice has fuelled Islamic intolerance – and cost lives. Asad Shah. The name doesn’t mean much to people in Britain today. But it really should. Shah was a Glasgow shopkeeper, beloved by his Shawlands...

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Sorry, Suella, we do have blasphemy laws

Mar 11, 2023 by

by Jeremiah Igunnubole, Artillery Row: It would be naive to think freedom of speech is safe. n the Times last weekend, Home Secretary Suella Braverman put forward a blistering defence of free speech and religious freedom: We do not have...

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Home Secretary Points Out We Do Not Have Blasphemy Laws in Britain

Mar 5, 2023 by

by Toby Young, Daily Sceptic: Suella Braverman has written an important piece for the Times today in which she points out that, contrary to the impression given by recent events at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield, it is not actually...

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Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan Grow Harsher

Mar 3, 2023 by

by Mohshin Habib, Gatestone Institute: Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have once again been made even more stringent by the country’s lawmakers. Amid a long-running international outcry against the notorious blasphemy laws, the...

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Britain’s new moral guardians

Mar 1, 2023 by

by Ed West, Wrong Side of History: In 1962, a year before sexual intercourse was introduced to Britain, playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell were sent to prison for causing damage to around 70 library books. They had taken...

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When a Wakefield boy brought a Koran to school

Feb 28, 2023 by

by Tom Slater, spiked: A British schoolboy has been suspended and threatened for committing blasphemy. What century is this? Time was, being a liberal meant spending a lot of your time agitating against religious hardliners, intent on...

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