YOU FIGHT TERRORISM BY NOT BEING TERRORIZED: Norway repeals blasphemy law, in response to Charlie Hebdo murders.
Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs of others, in a direct response to January’s brutal attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The proposal to rush through the change [originally voted on in 2009, but delayed for technical reasons since then,] was made in February by Conservative MP Anders B. Werp and Progress Party MP Jan Arild Ellingsen, who argued that the law “underpins a perception that religious expressions and symbols are entitled to a special protection”.
“This is very unfortunate signal to send, and it is time that society clearly stands up for freedom of speech,” the two wrote in their proposal.
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Interesting, but will Norway address the question of limitations on the immigration of those who carry the very virus of Islam?
Politicians who temper concerns with a wee bit of honey might end with a sting as a result of an unanticipated side of such a bargain.
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