Blasphemy ‘is no crime’, says Macron amid French girl’s anti-Islam row

[Polymath257]

Blasphemy is, at worst, a victimless crime.

 

[Cooky]

@danieldemol, I don't understand why you're acting confused about what I'm saying when I'm following exactly your train of thought, that you layed out.

...It's very puzzling. Perhaps you're here to maintain relationships rather than come to conclusions and learn?

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

No, but immigrants to every Western country could be required to uphold the constitution, as @Saint Frankenstein was saying...

Why wouldn't people want that for our neigjbors,who share much in common with us and are our friends?

...Why not.?

Okay, now here I agree. I require everyone who enters my country to obey the laws. But what @sun rise was talking about was what was happening in other places -- and also when American Christians wish to impose religious their religious notions on others, through the law. This is -- as I'm sure you must know -- in contradiction of the First Amendment.

 

[danieldemol]

@danieldemol, I don't understand why you're acting confused about what I'm saying when I'm following exactly your train of thought, that you layed out.

@sunrise appears to have clarified in post #9 that he does not allow fanatics to enter the west

 

[Cooky]

Okay, now here I agree. I require everyone who enters my country to obey the laws. But what @sun rise was talking about was what was happening in other places -- and also when American Christians wish to impose religious their religious notions on others, through the law. This is -- as I'm sure you must know -- in contradiction of the First Amendment.

@danieldemol was worried about France. I was following him.

 

[danieldemol]

@danieldemol was worried about France. I was following him. I guess that was a mistake.

Not really, please refer to post #24

 

[Cooky]

@sunrise appears to have clarified in post #9 that he does not allow fanatics to enter the west

You're mistaken. Read it again -he said he is "okay" with fanatics entering all western countries.

 

[Cooky]

Not really, please refer to post #24

Lol. I'm sorry, but you misinterpreted @sun rise.

 

[Father Heathen]

Allow people to come into Western countries and violate the culture with religious extremism.

Even if @sun rise could, what makes you think he would?

 

[SoyLeche]

You're mistaken. Read it again -he said he is "okay" with fanatics entering all western countries.

I don’t think he did. You might want to re-read his post.

 

[Cooky]

Even if @sun rise could, what makes you think he would?

Why wouldn't everyone want that?

...It's the logic to not wanting it, is what I want to understand.

 

[Cooky]

I guess it was a misunderstanding on my part. I thought @sun rise meant he has no problem with fanatics entering countries.

My mistake, everyone. I'm sorry.

 

[shmogie]

‘Emmanuel Macron has waded into a row over a schoolgirl whose attack on Islam has divided France, insisting that blasphemy is “no crime”.

The French president defended the teenager, named only as Mila, who received death threats and was forced out of her school after filming an anti-religious diatribe on social media.

Macron’s intervention comes after his justice minister, Nicole Belloubet, was criticised for claiming Mila’s attack on religion was “an attack on freedom of conscience” while saying the death threats were “unacceptable”.’

Read more here: Blasphemy 'is no crime', says Macron amid French girl's anti-Islam row

Free speech. is free speech.

 

[Thief]

...Because arousal is the only human emotion that exists outside of logic that I can think of... .

nay....accordingly the Britannica....

humor is the emotion considered ….irrational

but there is nothing funny about killing people that wont bow to your god

 

[Cooky]

nay....accordingly the Britannica....

humor is the emotion considered ….irrational

but there is nothing funny about killing people that wont bow to your god

You think sexual fetishes are logical..?

...I think Britannica is wrong.

 

[Wandering Monk]

Why should blasphemy be a crime in a culturally mixed democratic society? Wouldn't that be taking sides by the government when it comes to religion?

 

[Father Heathen]

Free speech. is free speech.

Hear, hear! *sets flag on fire*

 

[Estro Felino]

Here people are free to be outspoken and sometimes vulgar to diss the Vatican, since this Pope has gone "political "...

So I do not understand why there should be double standards.

 

[Altfish]

‘Emmanuel Macron has waded into a row over a schoolgirl whose attack on Islam has divided France, insisting that blasphemy is “no crime”.

The French president defended the teenager, named only as Mila, who received death threats and was forced out of her school after filming an anti-religious diatribe on social media.

Macron’s intervention comes after his justice minister, Nicole Belloubet, was criticised for claiming Mila’s attack on religion was “an attack on freedom of conscience” while saying the death threats were “unacceptable”.’

Read more here: Blasphemy 'is no crime', says Macron amid French girl's anti-Islam row

Macron is spot on, blasphemy is not a crime.

 

[Notanumber]

I hope she has a better life than Salman Rushdie. Look what happened to him.

The Rushdie affair was the opening chapter in a new unhappy book of modern history. The issues haven't gone away.

Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses