A_Wanderer
ONE love, blood, life
I don't think this is right
These retrogressive religious bigots scream hatred, they stand opposed to the values of an open society but criminalising their speech not only drives their ideological ilk underground but cuts away at the liberties of everybody else. It is at the extreme where liberties are fought and won and cases like this make for a less free society.
Encouraging some forms of murder is wrong but the charges of racism are laughable, would these men have as much issue with a Dane or an Englishman (or someone of Jewish decent) if he held the same beliefs as they do?
Fight these morons with pictures not prison.
and the critical quoteThe protests in February 2006 over the Danish cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad took the world by surprise.
But while many of the issues have not been resolved, one chapter has been closed with the jailing in London of four men who played key roles in a protest that shocked the British public in its vehemence and fury.
On 3 February 2006, as protests mounted around the world, some 300 people joined a march on the Danish Embassy in London.
Scores of young men and women carried provocative banners advocating Al Qaeda-inspired violent attacks against the UK and other countries. The British media had been among those who decided not to reprint the cartoons.
Of those 300 who took part, four were eventually identified from police surveillance and news reports and brought to trial.
linkIn his sentencing, Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, took a different view of the nature of protest.
"Freedoms of speech and assembly have long been jealously guarded by our laws - but with freedom comes respect and responsibility, neither of which was demonstrated by you or your hardcore of protesters," he said.
These retrogressive religious bigots scream hatred, they stand opposed to the values of an open society but criminalising their speech not only drives their ideological ilk underground but cuts away at the liberties of everybody else. It is at the extreme where liberties are fought and won and cases like this make for a less free society.
Encouraging some forms of murder is wrong but the charges of racism are laughable, would these men have as much issue with a Dane or an Englishman (or someone of Jewish decent) if he held the same beliefs as they do?
Fight these morons with pictures not prison.
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