I gather that in some conservative Islamic cultures a person
can be sentenced to death for using words which are deemed to be insulting to
the Prophet, even if unintentionally.
Meanwhile, the liberals in Australia are up in arms over a new law which allows members of religious faiths to offer a derogatory opinion of homosexuality based on the teaching of their holy book.
Does this amount to a sublime irony, or just another example of the world becoming sillier and sillier?
(And at this juncture I have to say that I view with extreme disquiet the notion that an honest expression of opinion can ever be deemed a ‘crime’. Are we not all free to simply disagree?)
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