10 November 2010

Indonesia isn't as tolerant as Obama would have us believe

.... just seven months ago, Indonesia's highest court issued a landmark ruling widely considered to be a major setback to speech and religious rights.

The Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of Indonesia's Blasphemy Act, which criminalizes speech or acts considered offensive to government approved religions as well as "deviations from teachings of religion considered fundamental by scholars of the relevant religion." [The Washington Post] Read more [via National Secualr Society]