Blasphemy

Articles

• Mauritanie : LA CONDAMNATION A MORT DE MOHAMED CHEIKH OULD MKHAITIR : UN CAS DE DYSFONCTIONNEMENT DE LA JUSTICE MAURITANIENNE
  8 avril 2020, par siawi3

  Analyse d’un cas de blasphème en Mauritanie. Depuis quelques mois, la victime, qui a échappé à l’exécution, vit à l’étranger et continue à militer.

• My Blasphemy is Bigger Than Yours
  4 May 2020, by siawi3

  A word of warning: my dear friends in Africa and in Asia, you may think that this is a distant story which is not your priority, but let me tell you that if the secular bastion France falls, it will have echoes for us all over the world.

• Celebrating Blasphemy and Dissent in the Ex-Muslim Movement
  4 May 2020, by siawi3

  Much of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s work over 12 years has been to normalise blasphemy and apostasy. From nude protests to challenge modesty culture, eat-ins at embassies that persecute people for fast-defying during Ramadan to atheist azaans (calls to prayer) and “Allah is Gay” placards at Gay Pride in London, blasphemy in the public space says to the parasitical imams and fundamentalists that they do not have power over us, they cannot silence us. and that we will not submit.

• France: Citizen Mila’s Disturbing Rights
  5 May 2020, by siawi3

  On January 18, young Mila, a schoolgirl aged 16, was drowned under sexist and lesbophobic insults and other threats, notably death threats, for having criticized Islam on Instagram. No surprise, this unleashed the usual passions regarding the Islamic religion and polarized the debate on secularism and racism. Under the circumstances, it does seem necessary to state – again – that if secularism as a principle guarantees equality between all beliefs, it also grants an inalienable right to criticize them all.

• Censorship and Self-censorship in India
  5 May 2020, by siawi3

  The chief villain is … the Indian law that would outlaw any book that said anything at all that might have proved… “offensive to younger or more reactionary readers”. For 295a is not technically a blasphemy law but a catch-all law so vague that it can and does trap within its shifting coils a number of practices, including blasphemy.

• Nigeria: Mubarak Bala, President of Nigerian humanists, under arrest for blasphemy
  8 May 2020, by siawi3

  On 28 April 2020, Mubarak was arrested following allegations that he had insulted the Prophet Muhammad in a Facebook post, i.e. on blasphemy charges. An international Week of Protest will begin on Tuesday, May 5, 2020

• A Parable of Blasphemy: As Textured by Sinhalese-Muslim Relations in Sri Lanka
  16 May 2020, by siawi3

  The Sri Lankan Civil War, which was fought from 1983 to 2009 by the government of Sri Lanka against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), came to an end when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009. Ever since, any minority ethnoreligious community that demanded their rights or voiced complaints about discrimination became a threat to the Sinhalese Buddhist hegemony – or at least that is what such hegemonic forces wanted to portray.

• In the Shadow of Bangladesh’s Digital Blasphemy Laws
  16 May 2020, by siawi3

  Coded into the Digital Security Act are sections that criminalize digital content that may offend popular sacred sensibilities, whether religious or nationalist. These vaguely-worded sections operate as ‘de facto blasphemy laws’ in Bangladesh.

• Forbidden Speech: Examples of Blasphemy from Ancient Israel
  25 May 2020, by siawi3

  Just as power and control were executed on a progressive scale of influence – parents, elders, chiefs, princes, monarchs, emperors – believers perceived a hierarchy in the supernatural world as well, from local demons and deities, to gods and goddesses tied to nations or ethnic groups, to universal gods. In all of these contexts the adherents or believers place demands on others in their group to honor, fear, and serve these otherworldly forces, though the ultimate source for such demands is often projected onto the deities themselves.

• Blasphemy and Censorship on the African Continent: South Africa, Sudan, and Mauritania
  25 May 2020, by siawi3

  The complex relationship between the human right laws of religion and the human right laws of freedom of expression or opinion has been shown to manifest in some of the most unsavory ways on the African continent. Even in today’s society, there are religious laws present in many African countries, which are used instrumentally to suppress and silence populations from being able to exercise their human right of freedom of expression, belief, and opinion.

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