Well, then, by all means, throw away the key. Only Islam in the modern world is so brittle and insecure as to require legal penalties for hurt feelings. And the West is eagerly galloping down this road, voluntarily adopting Sharia blasphemy restrictions that forbid criticism of Islam: it is taken for granted now that to analyze how jihadis use the teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism is some form of bigotry.
“Bangladesh social media activist is arrested on ‘anti-Islam’ charges for ‘mocking the Prophet Mohammed,'” AFP, December 26, 2017:
Bangladesh police arrested a 25-year-old social media activist as he tried to leave the country on charges that he defamed Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, authorities said Tuesday.
Immigration police detained Asaduzzaman Noor, known as Asad Noor on his YouTube channel, at Dhaka airport on Monday evening, inspector Mohammad Shahidullah told AFP.
‘The charge against him is that he hurt religious feeling by mocking Prophet Mohammed and made bad comments against Islam, the prophet and the Koran on Facebook and YouTube,’ he said.
Shahidullah said hundreds of Muslims staged demonstrations against Noor this year in the southern coastal town of Amtali after the head of an Islamic seminary filed a case against him.
Noor was charged under Bangladesh’s strict internet laws and could face up to 14 years in jail if found guilty.
Rights groups have accused the Bangladesh government of muzzling dissent and targeting atheist bloggers who have used social media to criticise religion.
In 2013, four Bangladeshi bloggers were arrested after nationwide protests in which Islamic groups demanded the execution of atheist commentators. They were later freed.
In recent years, atheist and secular voices have been targeted by Islamist extremist groups, who have hacked to death a dozen bloggers, publishers and activists, and forced others to flee overseas….
Luis says
“… charges that he defamed Islam and the Prophet Mohammed”
Who’s prophet? What if I don’t recognize him as a prophet?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Their prophet, who was quite a guy. The Prophet prophesied centuries of bloody mass murder attacks on those who don’t follow him, and turned out he was spot on in his prophesy. Unfortunately, it’s against the rules of good taste to link the Holy Prophet, much less Allah, to the endless bloody mass murder attacks. They have no choice to do it, to upkeep the constant sense of terror, and enforce the willful ignorance self-delusion.
You know, it wouldn’t be that hard for those in academia and mass media to read up on Islam. Goodness knows they spend plenty of time talking about it, why not learn about it first?
Diane Harvey says
Use of the definite article “the” together with a capital P really tips the hand, doesn’t it?
Properly Big Mo would simply be described as “Mohammed, the historical figure whom Muslims believe was a prophet.”
Luis says
Exactly!
StellaSaidSo says
There is some doubt as to whether the so-called ‘prophet’ Mohammed actually existed.
I agree, Diane Harvey, that we should not accord this malevolent character any respect, least of all refer to him as ‘The Prophet Mohammed’. To do so is to be complicit in accepting, and perpetuating the notion that (a) he was a real historical figure, and (b) that he was worthy of any reverential title. RIDICULE is the only sensible response to any aspect of the vile ‘religion’ (note the ‘ ‘) of the mythical 7thC desert madman.
elee says
They hack kafirs to pieces on the overcrowded streets of Bangladesh. I guess the good Muslim crowds just go about their business, nothing happening here but a little obedience to the Prophet.
krishna says
bangladesh claims itself an secular country but it is not secular enough
IQ al Rassooli says
It is impossible to insult or defame Muhammad since he was and still is BENEATH CONTEMPT!
Since Islam and Muslims are Muhammad’s Mirror Image, they too are Beneath Contempt hence cannot possibly be insulted
They have been proving this for over 1400 years and continue to do so as we write this article
I rest My Case
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Benedict says
It’s Mohammad who for centuries has mocked mankind – and especially Muslims – with his repulsive and ridiculous religion. All this religion has produced in the narrow-minded spiritual world of Muslims is resentment, hate and envy and it has thereby fettered them in a perpetual net of hurt feelings always readily displayed at any occasion.
Having lived several years in a Muslim country I can testify that the spirit of gratitude and humility is nonexistent among Muslims. Think about it: Muslims are, according to their religion, the custodians of the final and perfect revelation to mankind, mediated to the them by the last and perfect prophet who favored the Arab language above all other languages. And the main characteristics this favoritism of Allah produces in its beneficiaries are resentment, hate and envy!
Islam stinks because its doctrines provide its adherents with bad breath. Any society should do all in its power to prevent Islam from infesting its culture and its juridical system. Islam will ultimately drag a civilization down and replace it with barbarism.
Jaladhi says
Oh the Muslim cry babies – their feelings are hurt by the truth about thie religion and their criminal cult leader Mo/allah! On the other hand they nothing of killing millions of non-Muslims in the past and they are continuing the their track record of killing, raping, looting, stealing and even invading even now! The present day “migrants” to Europe and other countries are nothing but invaders and Pope is helping them in their invasions!!
Adam says
What if Mohammad was real and what if its true that he saw an angel. After 1400 years it would be clear that it wasn’t Gabriel who spoke to Mohammad but rather Satan.
Were Christ was tempted but refused, Mohammad did not refuse.
How else is it they crave death more then life? Who and what they are, are in direct contradiction to the natural human law, God’s law.
Give them what they crave and lets move on. We have a natural right from God to defend ourselves, in doing so we should never feel ashamed.
Have courage.
UNCLE VLADDI says
This is not surprising, really.
Criminals are all paranoid and refuse to learn from their own mistakes, because while rational people heed their own fears as useful warnings, and learn from them to fix mistakes and solve problems, criminals see their own fears as externally-imposed pain-causing threats, to be ignored or attacked – or, even worse, to be instantly compromised with and Submitted to! Such masochists like to pretend to be able to “control” their own fears BY causing those very same worst-case scenario problems which cause the pains they fear the most!
Since rational people get angry with criminals for their predatory choices, and criminals insist they have no choices because we’re all equally victims who should therefore tolerate the diverse differences between the kind of victim who attacks innocent others first, and those who don’t, they insist pity is always good and anger is always bad.
Therefore, this ILLEGAL and wholly subjectivist “HURT FEELINGS” nonsense has got to stop!
Offense can only be taken, never given! If someone says something mean and untrue about you, you either consider the source and scornfully laugh it off, file a lawsuit for defamation, (slander and libel are forms of fraud) or a crime report for inciting violence, if they went that far.
But these recent fake judge-made “laws” are really only onus-reversing crimes, as in:
“You have to prove you DIDN’T hurt my feelings, or else you owe me money, so go to jail! Nyah!”
And there’s no such thing as a state of permanent, ongoing “emotional distress” that isn’t deliberately and willfully, habitually obsessed about – because our emotions are mere reflections of the three basic states of space-time (the static past, the fluid present, and the nebulous future, respectively): static fear, fluid greed, nebulous hope. Not exactly worth defending!
Further, muslim and libetine “liberal” criminals have to resort to whining about their hurt feewings, simply because they don’t have any actual facts to justify their many crime excuses!
So, being angry at (“hateful” towards) criminals is now the most vile sin, while pitying (“tolerating”) them all as “fellow victims,” is now to be deemed the highest moral virtue!
So much so, that the only advice we hear from “our” hypocrite governments, their pet media, and the corporazi globalist banksters who own them all, seems to invariably be:
“Anyone who doesn’t automatically pity all criminals as fellow victims should be hated!”
Which is why hurting the feelings of criminals by accusing them of their crimes, is now a “hateful” crime itself!
Cheer Bear Girl says
Muslims have done way worse to kaffirs. I say Muslims’ concerns are petty compared to Religious minorities in Muslim countries and non Religious people. Muslims invading western nations deserve the mistrust and suspicions they’ve aroused.