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  • Some Religions Are More Equal Than Others: the Existence of Double Standards

    10/24/2013 7:11:30 PM PDT · by Enza Ferreri · 5 replies
    Enza Ferreri Blog ^ | 23 October 2013 | Enza Ferreri
    It never ceases to amaze me how on one hand cultural products considered offensive to Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism are treated as “hate crimes”. If, God forbid, a book or a film offends Islam (and that is easy enough, because Muslims do get easily offended), on top of being labelled a hate crime it also puts author, director or producers’ lives at risk with a fatwa (in fact, a film about Islam would be even too dangerous to make). But on the other hand to offend Christianity is “art”, as in the case of Chris Ofili's painting of the Virgin...