blasphemy

Blasphemy laws are not being abused, blasphemy laws are an abuse

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Having thought I was done, I’m now once again back on the topic of Blasphemy in Pakistan. There is an article in Today’s “The News”, A Pakistani on-line paper, that rather bizarrely claims … Rimsha case speaks volume of the failure and inefficiency of the Islamabad police but its latest turns and twists have made … Read more

The utter insanity of Blasphemy

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Since blogging yesterday about the on-going case in Pakistan of a child (Rimsha) being accused of Blasphemy (she did not, a complete wanker of a cleric planted the evidence), I’ve since noticed a small almost throw-away line. Towards the end of the following article in the Guardian about it all I found this … Human rights … Read more

Muslim cleric arrested for framing Rimsha Masih – the child arrested for Blasphemy in Pakistan

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The spotlight of the world has been focused upon Pakistan and is showing everybody what really happens when you permit extreme religious nutters to dictate. Pictured here you can see Rimsha going to court in Islamabad. So what has been going on? A judge deferred the hearing of Rimsha Masih last Friday until Monday over charges … Read more

Blasphemy in Pakistan – 11 Year old under threat of death

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Rimsha Masih is an 11-year-old girl in Pakistan who has Down’s syndrome, and has been arrested and thrown into prison for the crime of Blasphemy. What is going on here? The background is that the girl’s family were sweepers — work shunned by Muslims but common among poor Christians — and lived in a slum area in Islamabad. Malik … Read more

Blasphemy Day

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Did you know that 30th September was Blasphemy Day? Well it was. So what was it all about? It is the day when individuals and groups are encouraged to openly express their criticism of, or even disdain for religion, and was founded in 2009 by the Center for Inquiry. Did the media pick it up? … Read more

Blasphemy In Ireland

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Padraig Reidy wrote an article is Friday’s UK Guardian about Ireland’s poisonous blasphemy debate. Being Irish born and bred myself, I’m chipping in with a few additional comments of my own.

The context of the article is the latest challenge to the utterly insane blasphemy laws that still currently stand in Ireland. As an aside, what the heck does blasphemy actually mean, especially in the context of every religious belief being blasphemy to every other shade of religious belief, it truly is stupidity incarnate. If pursued to its logical end then they would need to lock everybody up … no exceptions, because every possible position of belief or non-belief will be blasphemy to somebody else.

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