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British gymnast lands himself in hot water but what of his 'crime'?
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//We’re witnessing the sly resuscitation of the stricture against blasphemy. England and Wales finally dumped the common law offence of blasphemous libel in 2008. Yet through the Racial and Religious Hatred Act (2006), which forbids the incitement of hatred on the basis of religion, and the rise and rise of Islamophobia policing, we are as restricted as ever in what we can say about religion. Well, about one religion. //
That says it all - and the final sentence is especially pertinent.
That says it all - and the final sentence is especially pertinent.
I wonder how this video, that was shot by Louis Smith, got leaked to the press ...
Anyway ... Louis Smith hasn't done anything illegal. What he has done is potentially break the code of conduct of British Gymnastics, for which he may face suspension or expulsion from British Gymnastics. Their club, their rules.
But if he is penalised, perhaps as a protest he could be voted Sports Personality of the Year ...
Anyway ... Louis Smith hasn't done anything illegal. What he has done is potentially break the code of conduct of British Gymnastics, for which he may face suspension or expulsion from British Gymnastics. Their club, their rules.
But if he is penalised, perhaps as a protest he could be voted Sports Personality of the Year ...
Quizproquo, // Stewart Lee, who co-wrote Jerry Springer:The Opera, had a whole load of death threats aimed at him, all of them from Christians.//
Firstly two wrongs don’t make a right, and yes, he did receive death threats but not from mainstream churches, solely from a few religion-obsessed fundamentalist Christians. Unfortunately Muslims who take umbrage when their faith is mocked or criticised are rather more in evidence. Witness the furore – and more – that the publication of a few cartoons created. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadan Foundation, says ‘our faith is not to be mocked, our faith is to be celebrated’. My question to him would be ‘Why?’
People who scream for apologies, or support those who do, are in fact enablers and conceding to that at every perceived slight serves only to invite further demands. We need to stop grovelling. Islam needs to get over itself.
Firstly two wrongs don’t make a right, and yes, he did receive death threats but not from mainstream churches, solely from a few religion-obsessed fundamentalist Christians. Unfortunately Muslims who take umbrage when their faith is mocked or criticised are rather more in evidence. Witness the furore – and more – that the publication of a few cartoons created. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadan Foundation, says ‘our faith is not to be mocked, our faith is to be celebrated’. My question to him would be ‘Why?’
People who scream for apologies, or support those who do, are in fact enablers and conceding to that at every perceived slight serves only to invite further demands. We need to stop grovelling. Islam needs to get over itself.
It appears only a crime to make fun of one certain religion. Areligion for which we must all bend over backwards to accommodate trashing decades of dragging ourselves into the liberal 21st century we are in.
The metropolitan liberal elite are to blame. Burn down all Islington Tibetan coffee shops I say.
The metropolitan liberal elite are to blame. Burn down all Islington Tibetan coffee shops I say.
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