Tunisia: Ruling Islamic supremacist party files bill to criminalize blasphemy

The death knell for the freedom of speech in "Arab Spring" Tunisia -- from the group that said it wasn't going to implement Sharia: "Tunisia’s ruling Islamists file blasphemy bill," from Agence France-Presse, August 1 (thanks to gravenimage):

TUNIS — Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party Ennahda on Wednesday filed a bill that would prohibit blasphemy, said Habib Khedher, who heads the committee in charge of drafting the constitution.

“Today we went ahead with the filing of a bill that would criminalise blasphemy,” said the lawyer, who is also an elected Ennahda MP in the National Constituent Assembly, Tunisia’s interim parliament.

The bill envisages a prison sentence of up to two years, or four years for repeat offences, Khedher told a local radio station.

At its first congress to be held inside Tunisia in 24 years, the moderate Islamist party advocated the idea of outlawing offence to religion while also guaranteeing freedom of expression.

The bill filed on Wednesday draws up a list of subjects held sacred in the three Abrahamic religions, including God and the Prophet Mohammed, the earlier prophets, the holy books, mosques, churches and synagogues.

It also codifies the levels of offence to religious feeling in Islam, Christianity and Judaism, including “insults, profanity, derision and representation of Allah and Mohammed,” something forbidden in Islam....

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That ''list of subjects'' is going to make interesting reading, not to say target-practice.

.... the moderate Islamist party advocated the idea of outlawing offence to religion while also guaranteeing freedom of expression.

Orwell spins once more in his grave! Freedom of expression guaranteed .... ehm... except when it comes to Islam!

As Stephen Fry once said; "You're offended?! So f***!"

Blasphemy is sharia illegal and apostasy if a Mahoundian does it...It is a worse offence if a filthy kuffar does it...Blasphemy against Allah, Mahound or Islam is 'warring with Allah', and 'spreading mischief in the land', invoking Quran 5:33 in all its depravity...A prison term is not harsh enough...but give the Tunisians a little more time...they are just getting started...eventually they will get it right...

my, my ... i wonder whether they shall codify the depths of disgust and disdain some might feel for the attempts to enslave the conscience to the SHARIA instead of the 10 Commandments, which are perfectly GOOD

i wonder whether they shall codify one's adversion to giving worship to Muhammad (invented, having all the qualities of a moral reject) in order to please the Allah god (unknowable, as imagined)

I wonder what will happen to the crosses and stars of David in the WW2 NORTH AFRICA AMERICAN CEMETERY in Tunis, will they suffer a similar fate to the COMMON WEALTH WAR GRAVES CEMETERY in Libya?

OT. . Groan :-( . . I just saw a London bus with a poster on its rear end advertsing Al-quds day demonstration, Aug 17 . It had a [sic] emotive cartoon of a guy in a kufi and robes clinging to the bars of his dark prison-cell window, looking out with clenched teeth at that monstrous mosque on Temple Mount. . The ad was put up by the so-called 'Islamic Human Rights Commission' with a web address of http://www.ihrc.org.uk

Also in Tunisia: Don't leave Islam or else..
This is how weak is their Allah!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/07/tunisia-beheading-decapite-en-tunisie.html

Thank's to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Middle East as well as North Africa will inevitably fall to fundamentalist Islam. Syria will be the last frontier, in which violence is used to overthrow secular governments.

At its first congress to be held inside Tunisia in 24 years, the moderate Islamist party advocated the idea of outlawing offence to religion while also guaranteeing freedom of expression.
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Ennahda is only a "moderate" Islamist party compared to—say—Ansar Dine in Mali, which is already amputating limbs for petty theft and stoning "adulterers" to death...

And in what way, exactly, are they "guaranteeing freedom of expression" while proposing a *blasphemy law*? More whitewashing from the Western press...

More:

The bill filed on Wednesday draws up a list of subjects held sacred in the three Abrahamic religions, including God and the Prophet Mohammed, the earlier prophets, the holy books, mosques, churches and synagogues.
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Yeah...right. Because Jews and Christians were clamoring for blasphemy laws. sarc/off

Of course, this is all about punishment for "blaspheming" Islam, and nothing more. In fact, it is likely Christians and the handful of remaining Jews who are among the most likely to suffer under such laws.

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It also codifies the levels of offence to religious feeling in Islam, Christianity and Judaism, including “insults, profanity, derision and representation of Allah and Mohammed,” something forbidden in Islam....
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As someone who has now drawn the "Prophet" Muhammed with a critical eye several times, I'd now be doing time in a Tunisian prison. See you in 2016...

Thank God, we are—so far—beyond the reach of Shari'ah. But not the people of Tunisia—not for much longer, unless they protest these laws. But how many, even in "moderate" Tunisia, will openly welcome them?

RE:"...filed a bill that would prohibit blasphemy..."

The irony here is that the koran is the most blasphemous book in the world. As an atheist and a born Hindu, I consider koran in blasphemous violation of all that I hold sacred.

It blasphemes everything that most human societies hold sacred.

Here's something that you, a long-time contributor here, will have seen before, but which I will post again, since it confirms your judgement, and may be helpful for readers who are new to this site and this subject.

It's what an Israeli Jewish writer, A Carlebach/ Karlebakh had to say about Islam, when writing in Ma'ariv in October 1955.

As shared by former frequent commenter here, Hugh Fitzgerald (in the course of eviscerating Edward Said, who had foolishly cited said Jewish writer)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/05/fitzgerald-edward-said-hoist-by-his-own-petard.html

"These Arab Islamic countries do not suffer from poverty, or disease, or illiteracy, or exploitation; they only suffer from the worst of all plagues: Islam.

"Wherever Islamic psychology rules, there is the inevitable rule of despotism and criminal aggression.

"The danger lies in Islamic psychology, which cannot integrate itself into the world of efficiency and progress, that lives in a world of illusion, perturbed by attacks of inferiority complexes and megalomania, lost in dreams of the holy sword.

"The danger stems from the totalitarian conception of the world, the passion for murder deeply rooted in their blood, from the lack of logic, the easily inflamed brains, the boasting,

"**and above all: the blasphemous disregard for all that is sacred to the civilized world...** {my emphasis - dda}

"their reactions -- to anything -- have nothing to do with good sense.

"They are all emotion, unbalanced, instantaneous, senseless.

" It is always the lunatic that speaks from their throat. You can talk 'business' with everyone, and even with the devil. But not with Allah...

"This is what every grain in this country {that is, Israel - dda} shouts.

"There were many great cultures here, and invaders of all kinds. All of them -- even the Crusaders -- left signs of culture and blossoming. But on the path of Islam, even the trees have died...".

There it is, Mulakush, an astute Jewish observer's searing analysis of Islam:

"and above all: the blasphemous disregard for all that is sacred to the civilized world".

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