06 November 2009

Blasphemy law set to be repealed

Earlier this year justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin agreed to suspend the blasphemy laws and amend the discrimination legislation to make it a criminal offence to insult groups of people instead.

That plan followed a high court ruling earlier this year, in which a man was found not guilty of insulting an entire group of people on the grounds of their religion. He had hung up a poster with the text 'stop the tumour that is Islam'. [DutchNews.nl] Read more [via Religious Watch]