- reverendsteveii ( @reverendsteveii@beehaw.org ) 10•1 year ago
The bill would make it a criminal offence to burn the Muslim holy book, the Bible or the Torah publicly.
Nice to see a clear dividing line between religions that matter and deserve protection and religions that can still legally be abused
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•1 year ago
A ban on burning a copy of a holy book is dumb, but international Muslims keep taking the bait and racists aren’t going to stop baiting them, so this might actually be the best solution.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 5•1 year ago
The best solution would be to apply existing hate speech laws to public gatherings dedicated to publicly “hating” people of a religion or some other minority e.g. LGBT or something else.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year ago
Oh yeah, if that’s an option that’s great. Why haven’t they tried that first?
- randomwords ( @randomwords@midwest.social ) English8•1 year ago
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Denis Diderot
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things. One of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable.
- Christopher Hitchens