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Denmark Scraps 334-year-Old Blasphemy Law
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 6/2/17 | AFP

Posted on 06/06/2017 10:46:13 AM PDT by marshmallow

‘Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly’, says MP who proposed the repeal

Danish lawmakers have repealed a 334-year-old blasphemy law that forbids public insults of a religion, such as the burning of holy books.

Only a handful of blasphemy trials have taken place in the past 80 years, and several high-profile cases have been dropped, including one involving a caricature of the prophet Muhammad published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005.

Denmark was the only Scandinavian country with a blasphemy law, which called for up to four months in prison upon conviction, although most people were fined instead.

Politicians who wanted to repeal the law introduced in 1683 “do not believe that there should be special rules protecting religions against expressions”, the Danish parliament said on its website.

But remarks and acts that threaten or demean certain groups of people because of their religious beliefs will still be punishable.

“Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly,” Bruno Jerup, an MP who proposed to repeal the law, was quoted as saying by Jyllands-Posten. “It gives religion a totally unfair priority in society.”


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Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly’, says MP who proposed the repeal

Right. That's the job of the omnipotent, omniscient state.

This means one can blaspheme Almighty God but one cannot call sodomy sinful lest one be charged with a "hate crime".

1 posted on 06/06/2017 10:46:13 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
Given that it's Denmark we're talking about there can be no doubt that the *very* fine print at the bottom of the legal document will say “it's still illegal to criticize I Slam”.
2 posted on 06/06/2017 10:49:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: marshmallow

That's the job of the omnipotent, omniscient state...

...establishment?

 "Islam did not rise except through Ali's sword and Khadijah's wealth," 

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=s6sYxzbiP-gC&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=Mecca+Convents&source=bl&ots=MCUIDvA-gA&sig=XlSQr3hdngfxi9PwL9nE4V81lQ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg2JuMrpTPAhUQ8GMKHZPOCS4Q6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=Mecca%20Convents&f=false


https://books.google.com/books?id=Wl0PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=Khadija+convents&source=bl&ots=S4CgWdu0oz&sig=WqLh2T2uHn7D30FqixqizsIb-wg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4pZHysZTPAhXJeSYKHVVoBiMQ6AEIQDAH#v=onepage&q=Khadija%20convents&f=false


Hmm.

3 posted on 06/06/2017 10:56:49 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: marshmallow

Here come the riots.


4 posted on 06/06/2017 10:57:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: marshmallow
"But remarks and acts that threaten or demean certain groups of people because of their religious beliefs will still be punishable."


5 posted on 06/06/2017 11:04:16 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: HLPhat
You've posted this at least twice that I've seen. What is your point?

For reference, St. Scholastica, St. Benedict's sister, founded the first order of Catholic nuns in the West. She died in AD 543.

Mohammed was born in AD 570.

6 posted on 06/07/2017 5:34:59 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: Campion

For reference, Islam is a state-establishing fraud, and it’s not unique.


7 posted on 06/07/2017 6:36:29 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: marshmallow
>>forbids public insults of a religion,

Fallible and Uninspired dominionists who get insulted when contradicted publicly - for $1000 in the final Jeopardy round, Krik!





Did ya hear the one about the little Deutchesboy?


"Ooops!"

8 posted on 06/07/2017 7:08:28 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Campion

For Reference, the number of the counting shall be 3 - not two nor four - and five is RIGHT OUT!

[Monty Python-Holy Hand Grenade]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk


9 posted on 06/07/2017 7:16:27 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: marshmallow

Don’t worry. The moslems will bring it back, and no liberal will complain about it.


10 posted on 06/07/2017 7:27:11 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Viriycho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
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To: HLPhat

Of course it’s not unique. It’s a syncretism of Judaism, Christianity, and Arab paganism.


11 posted on 06/07/2017 9:01:01 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: Campion
Of course.

How's that centally banked state-established "beautiful creation" running down in Paraguay these days?

http://www.google.com/#q=paraguay+reductions+beautiful

 

"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king
of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters?
If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell,
it is this society of Loyola’s.
Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration
to offer them an asylum."

--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816

12 posted on 06/07/2017 9:09:15 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

>>Don’t worry. The moslems will bring it back,

After all, that whole sacking Jerusalem thing worked out so great for the state-establishers the first time.

Oops.


13 posted on 06/07/2017 9:11:33 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Campion

>>It’s a syncretism of

There is nothing new under the Aten.

I forget - What was Akhenaten’s gender identity-ish cult a syncretism of?

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Akhenaten+gender-identity


14 posted on 06/07/2017 9:33:51 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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