Britain’s blasphemy laws

Feb 26, 2023 by

by Ben Sixsmith, The Critic: In 2021, a teacher was suspended from a school in Batley, Yorkshire for showing pupils a caricature of Muhammad during a religious studies lesson. Protests from aggrieved Muslims were fierce. The teacher went...

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The New Blasphemies

Dec 7, 2022 by

by Roger Watson, European Conservative: “But we don’t have blasphemy laws,” I hear people say when someone protests about some perceived slur on their God or Prophet. Indeed, we do not. Essentially moribund, they were abolished in England...

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Salman Rushdie and the Islamic Punishment for Blasphemy

Sep 4, 2022 by

by Gordon Nickel, Quillette: For centuries, the orthodox Muslim view has been that those who insult Muhammad must be summarily killed. The stabbing of Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York on August 12th, 2022 drew a flurry of media...

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Without blasphemy the West would have no free speech

Aug 16, 2022 by

by Mick Hume, spiked: Salman Rushdie is the latest in a long line of heretical heroes. The attempt by an apparent supporter of the Islamic regime of Iran to murder British author Salman Rushdie for the crime of ‘blasphemy’ might seem to...

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Archbishop calls for ‘safe routes’ to the UK

Jun 15, 2022 by

from Christian Today: The Archbishop of Canterbury is calling on the government to ensure “safe routes” to the UK after the first flight scheduled to take failed asylum seekers to Rwanda was grounded following legal action....

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The shameful censorship of The Lady of Heaven

Jun 8, 2022 by

by Inaya Folarin Iman, spiked: The Lady of Heaven is a new historical epic, portraying the life of Fatima, a child of the Prophet Muhammad. Yasser Al-Habib, the Shia Muslim cleric who wrote the screenplay, claims the film ‘conveys a...

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