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Stephen Fry Blasphemy Investigation
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I thought this was a joke article from one of those spoof news sites when I first saw it. There are lots of questions here but I'll go with 'Does anyone think he'll actually be charged with the offence?'
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Too many threads on the same issue.
Too many threads on the same issue.
/I would hope that free speech would override any "blasphemy" anyway.//
"Free speech" will override this[i case of blasphemy, I'm sure, Pixie, but free speech has already been suppressed in other cases. You didn't see the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, which caused the deaths of twelve journalists, on the BBC, did you? Don't think the Times or the Independent showed them either, did they? And Fry would never, I repeat [i]never] have made that same statement using the Arabic word for God.
It would have seemed incredible to anybody in the West even forty years ago (I'm quoting Douglas Murray here) that in the second decade of the 21st century we would be talking about blasphemy laws and "the cartoon crisis". Yet that is what we have. This is the funeral of a national hero (there's some very nice music in it):
Half of Britain's imams have come from that same place,mostly in the last twenty years. That fact alone. seeing what is being celebrated in the video, ought to give anyone concerned about free speech pause.
"Free speech" will override this[i case of blasphemy, I'm sure, Pixie, but free speech has already been suppressed in other cases. You didn't see the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, which caused the deaths of twelve journalists, on the BBC, did you? Don't think the Times or the Independent showed them either, did they? And Fry would never, I repeat [i]never] have made that same statement using the Arabic word for God.
It would have seemed incredible to anybody in the West even forty years ago (I'm quoting Douglas Murray here) that in the second decade of the 21st century we would be talking about blasphemy laws and "the cartoon crisis". Yet that is what we have. This is the funeral of a national hero (there's some very nice music in it):
Half of Britain's imams have come from that same place,mostly in the last twenty years. That fact alone. seeing what is being celebrated in the video, ought to give anyone concerned about free speech pause.
