Comments on: Islamic Nations Want to Pass Global Blasphemy Law

By: muggle

muggle — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:34:43 +0000

What the hey? I wasn’t given the opportunity to edit.

I wanted to add this at the end:

Islam gives us the perfect chance to prove that the pen is mightier than the sword. In fact, they have proved it for us by their overreaction to some pen and ink drawings.

By: muggle

muggle — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:32:42 +0000

Why may I ask should I give one modicum of respect for this proposal? Coming from fucktards who react to cartoons with bloodshed? Fuck them and, if they get it enacted, I’ll be mighty fucking tempted to send cryptic notes to the UN on a daily basis reading Allah sucks donkey balls. Though I’d have to take precautions to not wind up like Theo Van Gogh.

I’m sorry but I disagree that we shouldn’t mock religion. We are mocked constantly, stereotyped as amoral but we have to mind our manners? I will for theists who treat me with respect but feel no need to do so to those who don’t or if religion is discussed. How can I be anything but scornful of adult belief in imaginary friends?

Of course, I’m not out to win converts. What is this new thing like we have to convince people to disbelieve? Please. That’s as obnoxious as the theists who try to force their belief on us.

I am content to live and let live. But, once, a religion isn’t — and Islam largely isn’t — well, time to stand up and fight. And blasphemy/mockery is weapon number one.

By: Abimbola

Abimbola — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:13:02 +0000

Mockery itself is not an objective expression…some people (especially when it comes to Religion) cannot differentiate between it from humorous criticism. i personally think that i have the inalienable right to declare something absurd if i think it is…and we are not even talking about something funny here! this is a religion that continues to foster murder in the name of a holy obligation to rid the world of its non-adherents! i would say mere mockery is not enough; they should be on trial for murdering other human beings in the nonsensical name of an obscure belief!

By: Blaspheme while you can | Terahertz

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By: Alexis

Alexis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:45 +0000

Have the sponsor’s of this ban on blasphemy shown good faith by effectively combatting ALL blasphemy in their own nations? Specifically anti-Jewish and anti-Christian blasphemy, not just blasphemy against their own religious tenets? Hmmm, I thought not.

I still see reports of anti-Sunni hate speech by Shiites, anti-Shiite hate speech by Sunnis, and anti-Bahai, anti-Jain and anti-Hindu hate speech by both.

By: Viggo the Carpathian

Viggo the Carpathian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:49:33 +0000

“Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world…”
WRONG, four years after several radical clerics added there own inflammatory cartoons and traveled the Muslim world creating outrage and fanning the flames. Lets keep history straight here.

Anticontrame,

I agree we need not launch unnecessary barbs but the forces of unreason must be beaten one way or another.

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:06:48 +0000

How fragile is someone’s religious belief system if it can’t stand up to light-hearted mockery or criticism? This call for a blasphemy ban says volumes about the fragile egos of some religious believers.

In all seriousness, such a blasphemy ban would be dangerous, and I hope that no such ban comes into being.

By: Brian Macker

Brian Macker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:43:12 +0000

Oh, and I think there is plenty to worry about here. Instead of fighting Islamic bigotry, misogyny, oppression of non-Muslim’s, etc. we end up on the defensive against Muslim attempts at tyranny.

By: Brian Macker

Brian Macker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:40:52 +0000

Revyloution, "I have nothing against Muslims. I have some as friends and Ive even had some of them over to my house, and I let them use the bathroom." Yeah, just don't use the public drinking fountain in front of some Muslim's lest they beat you. Also don't drink tea from the muslim cup or they beat you to death. I think you have things backwards here. You see to many Muslim's and according to their religion, we non-Muslim's are the kafir (Islamic equivalent of nigger). Being against Islam is like being against the KKK or any other supremacist group like Nation of Islam. You seem to be on the side of the bigots on this.

By: Twin-Skies

Twin-Skies — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:37:46 +0000

@DSimon

True that

Flame-baiting nontheists are just as annoying and repulsive as religious fundies, based on my personal experience.