The push in the United Nations by Pakistan, Turkey etc for an extension of blasphemy laws is of great concern to supporters of free speech. Janet Albrechtsen, Simon Breheny and others have outlined the major points.
But in advance of 18 October UN Security Council election, I want to know whether the Gillard Government and its agents have made any commitments to support blasphemy laws, or even to run silent on the issue.
It is the responsibility of our Australian representatives to argue strongly against any such restrictions on free speech. To do otherwise is to betray the country that they are paid to serve. Blasphemy laws have no place in the 21st century; they are a relic of the medieval period being resurrected by religious zealots.
If the Government does not publicly state its opposition to blasphemy laws, the public have a right to be suspicious as to what behind-the-scenes agreements they have reached to secure votes for the UN Security Council seat.
I might as well say it before they make it illegal and build gulags for all of the offenders.
“Fuck Mohammad”.
There, I said it. Of course, I would never have said anything had I not been so outraged at the suggestion.
Twodogs
26 Sep 12 at 5:51 pm
Blasphemy laws are the institution of a theocracy.
.
26 Sep 12 at 6:02 pm
The Australian left has always supported restrictions against mocking Islam so I expect they’ll run silent. That’s the m.o. of the lefties who drop in here (Monty, Jarrah et alia) who never (ever) criticise Finkelsteinianism.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 6:20 pm
There will be no need for gulags; islam does not take prisoners.
And it will take more than fucking Mohammad to deal with this issue.
cohenite
26 Sep 12 at 6:22 pm
It’s time to convert these fuckers to Christianity.
We never had any of this rubbish under the Empire. Musslemen got uppity, the Brits would hang a few of them and thye’d shut up again.
Never apologise to these barbarians, just beat them down.
They get offended when we call their prophet a heap of shit? Well who cares? Get used to it, Muslims, because it isn’t going to change.
Rococo Liberal
26 Sep 12 at 6:30 pm
Right.
To Christians, Islam is an evil, false religion. We are no more obliged to ‘respect’ Mohammed than we are to respect L. Ron Hubbard.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 6:33 pm
As windsor the money grubbing Wanker said ” they d sell their arses for a place in the useless ,dictatorial, unelected, Fascist untidy nayshuns .
Who is going to employ these Proven Failures?
Borisgodunov
26 Sep 12 at 6:38 pm
Like he sold his ass to the liebor Tossers ,and he gets more than 30 pieces of silver ! TREASON you BASTARD.
Borisgodunov
26 Sep 12 at 6:40 pm
Bangbang himself at the UN calling for global blasphemy laws. Of course it only applies to Islam as no other religion is recognised by Muslims.
Jakarta Post:
This from our closest “ally”?
We’re talking about a government that intends to regulate the free press and regulate what citizens on blogs can say and install an internet filter. this is a government that has said it will do whatever it takes. So, yes, of course Gillard will comply with the demands of dictators to get the useless temporary seat at the security council. A position which has no influence whatsoever and no veto.
The Arab League countries have made it clear already to Gillard there will be no support for Australia’s bid unless Australia is less supportive of Israel.
This is Labor. They’d throw their own parents under a bus if it meant getting what they want.
Gab
26 Sep 12 at 6:43 pm
Oh well. Obama came out strongly for free speech, so everything is OK. Right?
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 6:45 pm
The Left are having orgasms over the blasphemy law. They desperately want it so that they can keep their electoral coalition together (including Communists, Muslims, public servants, and so on) without the glaring contradictions being exposed.
Fisky
26 Sep 12 at 6:50 pm
So how do you explain O’s strident defence of liberal orthodoxy? I mean, he is as far left as I can imagine, and yet his address to the UN could have been written by a Cat libertarian (give or take a few cuss words). He was obviously insincere at many points, but he was still able to read it out with a straight face.
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 6:55 pm
Big Jim @ 1855,
I wouldn’t trust any of them as far as I could throw them. There is a “public position” where all the nice words are said re freedom of speech and there is the backroom dealings that go on that are the real postion.
Mike of Marion
26 Sep 12 at 7:22 pm
All I want to hear is a hearty fuck you and the horse you rode in on from the Australian government.
lotocoti
26 Sep 12 at 7:24 pm
Times like this, I like to refer to the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI). That’s the neutered version of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No matter where you look, that pesky sharia law gets in the way.
Steve of Glasshouse
26 Sep 12 at 7:38 pm
Mike, exactly. But when the left can easily steal your script and brazenly read it out, there’s something wrong. You need a script that would stick in their throats.
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 7:44 pm
Have I understood this correctly? If I had the misfortune to run into one of the various trolls on this site at a bar and called them a dumb idiot and they hit me, they would be arrested. But if I call the so-called prophet and all his followers dumb idiots then I get arrested?
It’s my view that if you have faith in your beliefs, personal, political, or religious, why would you take offence at comments from others you have no respect for?
Freedom of speech for everyone. Except Leigh Sales…she should shut up stat.
Megan
26 Sep 12 at 7:47 pm
“Never apologise to these barbarians, just beat them down.”
So they are barbarians but we should beat them down like barbarians…Odd logic
“To Christians, Islam is an evil, false religion. We are no more obliged to ‘respect’ Mohammed than we are to respect L. Ron Hubbard.”
WTF? I respect your right to believe in JC and the trinity, etc…. I wouldn’t mock it and say what shite, but it ain’t for me.
I apologise in advance for a slow respones as I will not be not be on line for a while…but will come back
the dude will abide
26 Sep 12 at 7:49 pm
I can live with that.
Gab
26 Sep 12 at 7:50 pm
Leigh Sales speaks in an odd way, like some sort of hyperactivity disorder.
candy
26 Sep 12 at 7:56 pm
This is worrying.
We all know how trustworthy Gillard has proved not to be and we all know a lot more about her sleazy “young and naive” past.
A person of her calibre can betray Australia at the drop of her..hat.
James of the Glens
26 Sep 12 at 8:02 pm
I’ve made a point of not watching the ABC but Life Partner inflicts it on the household night after night. Tonight when she was interviewing Tanner Minor, she asked some really nasty questions which TM batted politely and firmly away, but each time she sped up delivery till she sounded like a wound up toy set to Max. The nastier the question the faster and more frenzied she sounded. It was bizarre.
Megan
26 Sep 12 at 8:25 pm
Islam is truly the Religion of Peace. Non-Muslims in Western countries (including Australia) must respect their religious sensivities. It’s a case of respect due to them under our doctrine of multi-culturalism. If you can’t live with that, I suggest you just shut up.
It’s only the tiniest minority of Muslims who were involved in the riots recently, and even they were provoked by police with vicious dogs. You really must look at the full picture, not just the narrow vision caused by your own narrowness.
I’m not a Muslim myself, but I fully sympathise with them in their battle for respect. It’s surely not too much to ask thet we forego the deliberately provocative blasphemy many Westerners use to give themselves a thrill.
hammygar
26 Sep 12 at 8:36 pm
Shoo, Hammy.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 8:36 pm
Obama actually got it right for once:
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=799117
Obama said that “at a time when anyone with a cellphone can spread offensive views around the world with the click of a button,” the notion that governments can control the flow of information is obsolete.
“The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech – the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect,” he said.
John Mc
26 Sep 12 at 8:39 pm
Not a good spamming effort this time, Kero boy.
Yep, CL is right, although he said so less nicely than I am about to.
Fuck off.
JC
26 Sep 12 at 8:40 pm
There’s something that has to be said in relation to Islam. In this subjectivist era of watered down, inoffensive religious syncretism, people need to be reminded that Mohammed is a big fat zero as far as Christianity is concerned. Revelation ended with Jesus Christ – He is the Alpha and the Omega of salvation history. We do not acknowledge that Mo was any kind of ‘prophet’ – except a false prophet. People can advocate understanding if they like – Christian leaders often do so – but this should not be mistaken as some kind of loose acceptance of Islam’s equality with Christianity or its ordained role in the salvation of some peoples, on a par with the One True Christian Faith. Christians do not believe that, have never believed it and never will believe it. We hope and pray for the conversion of these unfortunate heathens.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 8:41 pm
“It’s a case of respect due to them under our doctrine of multi-culturalism. If you can’t live with that, I suggest you just shut up.”
Our doctrine. Begs the question, doesn’t it?
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 8:44 pm
I thought it ended with St John Of Patmos…or the revelation of miracles publicly acknowledged by JPII…
.
26 Sep 12 at 8:46 pm
Hammy is a fuckwit; he should read Nick Cohen’s “What’s Left” which details the treatment of the left, marxists, unionists and assorted parasites by the islamist scourge when they booted out the shah in iran; there were many blunt knifes after that demonstration of islamic respect.
There is no middle ground when dealing with islam; unless of course you regard a severed larynx as a middle ground.
cohenite
26 Sep 12 at 8:47 pm
Incredible. And you have the cheek to criticise the intolerance of adherents of the prophet!
hammygar
26 Sep 12 at 8:48 pm
At least CL didn’t demand a beheading, as they do in the Religion of Pieces.
Gab
26 Sep 12 at 8:49 pm
No. Revelation was fulfilled in – and ended with -Jesus Christ.
There are no more prophets.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 8:50 pm
One big difference, Kero boy.
He wouldn’t stick a fatwa on you if you disagreed with his religion or criticized Jesus.
I would in a NYC second with you, but you know that anyways. In fact I’d be happy to buy you a box of matches.
JC
26 Sep 12 at 8:51 pm
Oh yea, I should have called for Kero’s beheading with a digitized guillotine.
Hey Kero. Forget the matches, son.
JC
26 Sep 12 at 8:53 pm
” you have the cheek to criticise the intolerance of adherents of the prophet!”
I did not see CL criticise ‘intolerance’; impertinence certainly.
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 8:55 pm
These disgusting, lobotomised stone age savages have been flogging this utter shit for years.
I’m not going to wear it.
If anyone thinks I’m going to tolerate being sanctioned in any way, shape or form for calling the death cult’s prophet a lying thieving genocidal kiddie fiddler, they can go pleasure a goat.
No backing down, no ordering me what to think or say.
And to their equally disgusting leftist enablers – you’ll be the ones whose heads they hack off first.
But they won’t be getting me.
Rabz
26 Sep 12 at 8:57 pm
The rest of the world is over muslim hypersensitivity. Guess thats what happens when you can drink, smoke or get laid before marriage? Uptight or what and if all you don oin the weekends is kneel and pray then its not wonder they nbrealk out and run loose around the city while normal people are trying to run businesses without having to put up with the aggrieved bearded and tattooed disaffected.
Im so over it and njormally I am tolerant but these idiots rioting in Sydney streets over an insult to their prophet are nothing better than time wasters.
We dont care. We do care about the peace. We dont care about your hurt feelings.
Alice
26 Sep 12 at 8:57 pm
You forgot to add the last bit…
may Peace be on him..
JC
26 Sep 12 at 9:00 pm
Liaten Rabz
I could be accused of being a leftist but even I dont want to wear this disgusting display of aggression over religion on our streets either
The person who insulted their bloody prophet was in New York or somewhere in the States. Could just as easily have been in Beijing or outer Kazahkstan,
So STF where these local morom muslims doing causing a riot here.
If they can afford the plane tickets why not take their beef where it belongs – ie where is started for them. Not here. Not on our streets. Where they really accuse us, Australians of insulting their bloody prophet.
I dont even know their damn prophet and I dont care what they do or where or how they pray.
I do care about them getting aggro on our streets without justification.
Bunch of losers.
Alice
26 Sep 12 at 9:03 pm
It most certainly is too much to ask. Religious offence is just a way for practitioners of religion to con others into giving them what they want. And you were clearly at the front of the Con Me First line.
Megan
26 Sep 12 at 9:04 pm
JC not need to be rude
Alice
26 Sep 12 at 9:04 pm
Rabz – as for my head being hacked off first. Hmmmph
Thanks a lot – we have lunatics running around the streets and here you are suggesting they hack of leftists heads first?
Helpful. NOT.
Alice
26 Sep 12 at 9:07 pm
That disgusting death cult has been the single most retrograde influence in human history, end of.
That it still exists, let alone that it is mindlessly adhered to by billions of illiterate morons is utterly inexcusable.
Enough – quite frankly I want to see the end of it in my lifetime.
Rabz
26 Sep 12 at 9:08 pm
Which sums up neatly the whole problem with religions.
SteveC
26 Sep 12 at 9:08 pm
The first part of Islamic ‘respect’ in the west is the mo-crew acknowledging a few basic truths:
- western values mean religion is a private matter; it has no business in politics or the wider public life.
- if someone has offended your skyfairy or his 6th century earth-bound rock spider bitch feel free to get offended and gob off, but keep your hands to yourself or you will be dealt with appropriately, hopefully with extreme force, pepper spray, Alsatians and even bullets if required
- Islam has a violent and brutal past up to and including recent times; you can’t deny it, you can’t defend it and history is going to record it as such so get over it. You don’t have to condemn it but you should, and if you don’t most of us will consider you a fuckwit of the highest order and an example of why your religion is stupid.
- your ‘obligations’ to Islam mean nothing to us so don’t expect special treatment of any kind
- plenty of us ‘kaffir’ think your religion is backwards, brutal and generally retarded, and that’s not going to change so get over it.
- there wil be undoubtedly further times when western militaries will need to intervene in ‘muslim’ lands. Tough shit, if you want to stay here then get over it. If you absolutely can’t stand it then act like a person with a sense of honour for a change and f*ck off back there and take up arms against us. Hopefully we can send you off to meet with your 72 burqa virgins at some stage.
John Mc
26 Sep 12 at 9:08 pm
What about yours Kimberly lover? Moron, you think the carbonic tax will lower world emissions for fucking fuck sake.
Don’t be throwing stones… pun intended.
JC
26 Sep 12 at 9:09 pm
So the Book of Revelation? Um?…You’ll have to talk down to me C.L.
.
26 Sep 12 at 9:11 pm
I wish the book of Revelation would help me out a little of where the Euro/US is going?
JC
26 Sep 12 at 9:12 pm
What sort of stupid death f*cking death cult hates dogs, FFS?
Rabz
26 Sep 12 at 9:16 pm
Cats I can understand.
Do they hate cats as well?
Now if they hated possums the way I hate the disgusting ugly creatures I could be tempted to convert and become an oil sheik.
JC
26 Sep 12 at 9:19 pm
“We hope and pray for the conversion of these unfortunate heathens.
Which sums up neatly the whole problem with religions.”
I agree, to a point. But this problem is a very Christian one. Other religions are chippy; they don’t share this kind of noblesse oblige.
It was OK to patronize the heathen thus, when he was under the yoke; when you could have him flogged for so much as as impudent glance at one of your womenfolk. You may not have noticed, but times have changed. He doesn’t waste any time praying for you, and to be honest, you are probably past praying for him.
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 9:19 pm
And why are the muslims so upset?
No. No inquiry allowed, unless of course you want a beheading.
What other religion does that?
Gab
26 Sep 12 at 9:23 pm
Churchill was right..
duncan
26 Sep 12 at 9:24 pm
Dot, you’re confusing one book – the book of Revelation – with revelation per se (all of the Bible, in addition to the Word of God unwritten; Tradition).
Christ fulfilled revelation. It ends with Him – the Alpha and the Omega.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 9:24 pm
Gab – LOL (gravatar).
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 9:25 pm
One has to have the appropriate attire to fit the occasion.
Gab
26 Sep 12 at 9:26 pm
Hammygar is sort of right about “peaceful” regligion as there is only one God, no compartmentalisation going on at all, who is peaceful and kind, it’s just that the Islamics have gone off the track because they feel God is murderous and oppressive. Denying of life is denying God so yeah, right off the track actually. So when CL says “conversion of heathens” sounds harsh, but I feel he means they Islamics will come to understanding true God one day.
candy
26 Sep 12 at 9:28 pm
He doesn’t waste any time praying for you, and to be honest, you are probably past praying for him
At the very least, we pray for their hearts to soften.
Gab
26 Sep 12 at 9:34 pm
Indeed, Fuck Mo and Allah fucks pigs.
You don’t like it, Believers?
Excellent.
Alfonso
26 Sep 12 at 9:34 pm
The heathen cannot pray for me efficaciously, because his god doesn’t exist. So that point is moot. But Christians do indeed pray for the conversion of all peoples to the One True Faith.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 9:37 pm
Gab. That is the best avatar ever!
Megan
26 Sep 12 at 9:39 pm
good idea. who is likely to be the first convicted of saying nasty things about others
Jim Rose
26 Sep 12 at 9:45 pm
I admire your steadfastness, CL, but let me change tack. The matter is not really one to be resolved in the halls and quads of Theology and Divinity.
Duncan mentioned Churchill above. Well, between the wars it was common knowledge that the Mediterranean orientals were becoming restless. Radical Islam, indeed Wahhabism, was resurgent. It was intimately tied up with Arab nationalism and anti-colonialism then. Nothing has really changed. It’s a brown-on-white rage thing at its core. If you don’t get this, the phenomenon will keep shifting shape on you, and you will be as innocent as the hapless State Department on the ME.
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 9:54 pm
Drench them with napalm and pork fat and tell them to STFU – we’re not shutting our mouths for any god.
perturbed
26 Sep 12 at 9:55 pm
Whoops. Went awry. That’s what I thought you meant.
However, is St John of Patmos considered a prophet?
.
26 Sep 12 at 10:04 pm
Perturbed… I like the idea of pork-fat based incendiaries.. there’s some mileage in that.
duncan
26 Sep 12 at 10:06 pm
Scientology, but that’s neither here nor there.
Supplice
26 Sep 12 at 10:08 pm
I’m not trying to be ‘steadfast,’ Jim. I’m just pointing out that Mohommed means nothing in Christianity. Zero. He’s a meaningless nobody. I’m well aware of the history you mention but conversion is a project in God’s power and He doesn’t operate in the quadrangles of the academic divines. He operates in history and there are many arenas of conversion, both spiritual and practical.
C.L.
26 Sep 12 at 10:11 pm
Of course you’re not trying to be steadfast. It comes naturally.
Big Jim
26 Sep 12 at 10:18 pm
I just knew this thread would be an absolute hoot to read, and I was not disappointed! Rabz, I hereby award you a PhD in Creative Invective, chosen from a strong field. Gab, your gravator makes you the Belle of the Ball. CL, as always, a consistent and conscientious Christian putting Islam in its place. JC, always ready to seize an opportunity if he ever had to find a silver lining .. I really can’t go on, as everyone has been great.
Classic Cat. Oh meow, JC. I miss my little kitten a lot still.
Thinking of sadness, this afternoon on impulse I watched old Andy Stewart’s Scottish Soldier on youtube with a rolling backdrop of some very very fine young men from Scotland who had died fighting in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Made me cry.
They died so we could speak up like this on the Cat. Someone tell Julia. Good Aussie blokes are dying there too.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
26 Sep 12 at 11:28 pm
On the Sydney prophet riot:
Paternalistic? More like they fear more violence so pander to the dears. No one respects or listens to appeasers.
Gab
27 Sep 12 at 12:37 am
Respect is earned, not just given. No one should be forced to respect anyone’s beliefs, religious or not. Treat everyone as an individual on a case-by-case basis. If they’re a good person then yes, they get respect, regardless of their ludicrous beliefs.
Quentin George
27 Sep 12 at 7:08 am
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_declares_blaspheming_unacceptable/
Ivan Denisovich
27 Sep 12 at 8:30 am
“ludicrous beliefs” are an intrinsic aspect of some peoples’ character.
I do not respect people who have ludicrous beliefs.
Tolerate yes*, respect no.
*And only if I basically have to, e.g. workplace environments.
P.S. Thanks Lizzie – that was written through a red mist, nothing fires me up nowadys as much as my twin pet hatreds, the death cult and their lobotomised leftist tent pets.
Rabz
27 Sep 12 at 8:30 am
Our stupid politicians and other commentators don’t learn from history. If they won’t stand up for our freedoms now with words our children or grandchildren will have to do so with guns.
Obio
27 Sep 12 at 8:45 am
‘“ludicrous beliefs” are an intrinsic aspect of some peoples’ character.”
True, but not sure if people should have to ‘earn’ respect from others, it is just due to everyone anyway out of civility, no matter their ludicrous beliefs (because it’s not ludicrous to them).
But if they show signs of wanting to behead you, it does throw a spanner in the works.
candy
27 Sep 12 at 9:16 am
=^..^=
Fatso the cat, and long standing CC member puts out a fatwa against JC.
“Behead Those Who Insult The Feline!”
Winston SMITH
27 Sep 12 at 10:27 am
I wonder what they will do when they realise that some insulins, anti coagulants and other medicines available in the Western Medical System are porcine derived?
Winston SMITH
27 Sep 12 at 10:32 am
Government is always a ‘theocracy’ if you consider that they always believe in something, and base their values on that belief.
What you want to know (apart from the truth), is how benevolent and tolerant is that theocrat? Right now, we’ve got Socialist Secular Humanists at the wheel, and they don’t seem to be making us freer. Think of all the new words we have to condemn and silence dissent – homophobia, islamophobia, climate change denier etc, as well as the misuse of old words, eg. racist.
But I don’t know why they love Islam so much.
Ellen of Tasmania
27 Sep 12 at 10:33 am
Mo thought dogs were unclean, but quite liked cats. I think he kept a few.
Hence millions of mindless followers also hate dogs but love cats. The mistreatment of dogs in islamic lands is widespread. I suspect the treatment meted out to dogs is even worse then that given to women, but that is arguable.
I am reminded of a photo in NatGeo, of a bloodied woman sitting in a chair and in the background a female police officer and a man. The place: Afganistan. The caption read the man had stabbed his wife and was being arrested by the female copper. It also said that the copper was later murdered by the Taliban.
Will
27 Sep 12 at 10:57 am
The rest of us have to suffer under the Sedition laws and other anti-Terrorism leislation, including the proposed changes to retention of email communications, so why shouldn’t this be used to mop up the muslim agitators:
cohenite
27 Sep 12 at 11:11 am
Arguably some of the agitators might be guilty of c) and d).
Rightly so. It is a matter of public order. I don’t want these crazies radicalising people outside of their sub culture – i.e white supremacists.
It won’t happen if we stamp it out.
Sure, believe what you like, just don’t do it violently or intimidate other or incite violence.
.
27 Sep 12 at 11:17 am
And cigarette filters!
Supplice
27 Sep 12 at 11:27 am
Smoking is anti Islamic? jesus! The biggest smokers I’ve known have pretty much been all Middle Eastern or Indian!
You can’t tell me they’re all Eastern catholic or Hindu.
.
27 Sep 12 at 11:30 am
Hold on tight laid back Aussie land. We are so laid back that we ‘all of a sudden’ see things when it is too late. Remember when certain suburbs of Sydney didn’t have completely asian populations and trains had white people? Didn’t just happen overnight, but we all think it did.
BTW dopey Gillard WILL support it because it buys some other countries vote on the council and then she can finally shove Kevin off to somewhere else in the world permanently.
It will all keep on going until enough realise what just happened and then it will be on for young and old.
Pizzaskase
27 Sep 12 at 12:53 pm
So in the spirit of free, unshackled expression, I could post a truckload of holocaust denial literature somewhere and you will all defend my right to free speech without fear or favour??
Thought not.
pb
27 Sep 12 at 12:54 pm
I had to ask this question after reading that first post from that Hammygar guy – is this guy for real, or just trolling, trying to stir?
He seems to personify the cognitive dissonance prevalent in the Left – of extolling the virtues of Islam and demanding a tolerance towards a violently intolerant religion that would, if it could, outlaw all the things that the progressive Left holds so near and dear, like same sex marriage, homosexual equality, women’s liberation etc.
You read posts like his and you’re like ‘Hellllooo, is there anything functional and useful going on in Hammygar’s brain?’
A Lurker
27 Sep 12 at 1:01 pm
Driveby commenting here, Alice. Rabz is correct.
The jihadis have no respect for lefties. Lefties are useful idiots, and once they have fulfilled their uses, they can be cast off. However that occurs.
As happened in Iran, for example. In Sydney there is on Daniel Shayester, who was a uni student who assisted the Ayatollah’s forces against the Shah.
Two guesses what happened? Yup, suddenly, he didn’t have any use, and found out that the new islamic paradise wasn’t quite what he expected.
He left in a hurry, and eventually wound up here. His story is very enlightening and inspiring, but it’s also a very valuable lesson.
Lefties do not honour or respect their own history and traditions, so are not deserving of any sort of consideration.
It’s a different mindset, and all animals are most definitely NOT equal.
As a christian, I would be afforded more respect for honouring my God, even if they didn’t approve of that.
nilk
27 Sep 12 at 1:12 pm
Of course blasphemy laws are ridiculous, and we should vehemently oppose such an odious restriction of free speech.
If such laws were in place, probably the first person to go to jail in Australia would be Catherine Deveny.
As briefly tempting at that is, it’s no reason not to stick up for free speech.
papachango
27 Sep 12 at 1:24 pm