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Ireland has a new anti-blasphemy law. And if that wasnt bad enough, it seems to have been drafted as a precaution against Danish-style insults to Islam.
I dunno whats worse – muslims who think Islam needs to be defended, or non-muslims who think Islam needs to be defended. Probably the former, because they at least should know that Islam is eternal.
If members of the Organization of Islamic States can get an anti-blasphemy rule passed at the UN to curtail conversations about activities that some Muslims consider Shariah (female genital mutilation, stoning and child marriages), then will the rule also prevent OIC states from criticizing Israel and Israeli settlers for taking Palestinian land, since that too is said to be prescribed by religion?
Pakistani Christians “live in fear”.
(Via FaithWorld.)