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Free Speech On Trial Today Or Bigotry In The Dock?
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There is no trial.
So e pne has reported his remarks as imflamatory. At worse he may have to apologise and that will be it.
In the context of Northern Island, where sectarianism is almost a professional sport, the comments were rather mild.
I remember the Rev Ian Paisley regularly denouncing the Pope as satanic, but there was no law then to be broken.
So e pne has reported his remarks as imflamatory. At worse he may have to apologise and that will be it.
In the context of Northern Island, where sectarianism is almost a professional sport, the comments were rather mild.
I remember the Rev Ian Paisley regularly denouncing the Pope as satanic, but there was no law then to be broken.
youngmafbog - //jno, whilst I appreciate you would like to see Anjem Choudary get off, he really is a different kettle of fish. //
Let's see - religious leader - check, vile religious hatred spewed out at every opportunity - check, an unassailable belief that his own faith is the only faith, and all others are to be damned - check, use of a platform furnished by a religion based on peace to preach hatred and bigotry - check, both fallen foul of the law of the land because of their narrow-minded hate-filled rabble rousing - check.
Nope - can't see any differences there ...
Let's see - religious leader - check, vile religious hatred spewed out at every opportunity - check, an unassailable belief that his own faith is the only faith, and all others are to be damned - check, use of a platform furnished by a religion based on peace to preach hatred and bigotry - check, both fallen foul of the law of the land because of their narrow-minded hate-filled rabble rousing - check.
Nope - can't see any differences there ...
Naomi - //andy-hughes, //Nope - can't see any differences there ... //
You forgot one that doesn't check. An enemy of his country. Now can you see a difference? //
A matter of semantics I think.
I would suggest that any individual who lives in a country, and preaches racial and religious hatred against other people who live there could be classed as 'an enemy of his country' - being born in the country they preach their poison into is something else they both have in common.
You forgot one that doesn't check. An enemy of his country. Now can you see a difference? //
A matter of semantics I think.
I would suggest that any individual who lives in a country, and preaches racial and religious hatred against other people who live there could be classed as 'an enemy of his country' - being born in the country they preach their poison into is something else they both have in common.
Naomi - //andy-hughes, Semantics? I don’t think so. One is an enemy of his country – the other is not. //
I think that is a matter of degree.
It is really easy to link extreme Muslim clerics with the notion of 'hate preaching' - like most people, when I hear the phrase 'hate preacher', the vision of Mr Choudary and similar does come to mind.
But let's not imagine that because the other cleric in the discussion is a cuddly white Irishman, that he is any less poisonous in his heart - or indeed in his agenda.
I think that is a matter of degree.
It is really easy to link extreme Muslim clerics with the notion of 'hate preaching' - like most people, when I hear the phrase 'hate preacher', the vision of Mr Choudary and similar does come to mind.
But let's not imagine that because the other cleric in the discussion is a cuddly white Irishman, that he is any less poisonous in his heart - or indeed in his agenda.
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