23 October 2012

Qatar aims for UN sponsored blasphemy law

Attacks on ‘blasphemers’ are threatening free speech in many countries. Christians and atheists are under fire in Egypt. Clampdowns on satire are just one of many problems facing Greece. And of course keeping up with the various attempts by the OIC to use the UN to enforce blasphemy rulings can feel a bit like playing whack-a-mole. The topic’s been up and down and up and down and now up again.

The Qatari Justice Minister is behind the latest initiative, a drive to creative an international law against blasphemy ‘with the help of the United Nations’: [Harry’s Place] Read more