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The problem arises when religious teachings are used to justify evil. For example, religion can be used to justify enslavement of womenfolk of enemies defeated in Jihad, rape of those enslaved women, and selling those enslaved women in the slave market. See this Hadith (Sahih Bukhari...

The sole Reality expresses Itself in infinitely varied forms and aspects. It would be more accurate to say that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva symbolize aspects of Prakriti or Creation. Brahma symbolizes creation, Vishnu symbolizes preservation, and Shiva symbolizes destruction. These aspects are...

Actually backwardness of Muslims is due to many factors, such as the grip that the backward-looking Mullahs have on the community, lack of education and opportunities for Muslim women, etc. Muslims in UK are also not doing as well as Sikhs or Hindus, for example. Are Hindus oppressing...

This is a tragic incident, but the blame should go to the terrorists who use civilians as human shields, and to those who sponsor such terrorists and send them across. The following article give more information. Killed in crossfire Udhampur, Feb 22: Army today claimed the two youth...

I think one can work within that. But the law is far too broad. Somebody could express a critical opinion and could easily be accused of an "imputation, innuendo, or insinuation" that "directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name".

I don't support the EU laws criminalizing questioning the Holocaust. But questioning the Holocaust or criticizing a religion is not the same as crying fire in a theatre. Fortunately, in the good old US of A, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, you can still question the Holocaust as...

Hmm ... if you are not allowed to express critical opinions about the Prophet, how can you say criticism of Islam is allowed? Well, it is an important topic. I will grant that Pakistan is relatively liberal in some ways. Cowasjee would not have been allowed to write that article in Saudi...

No punishment for criticising Islam? Check this:

Despite so much abuse, you still think that its acceptable to have laws that violate fundamental human rights? Further, if somebody actually did convert from Islam to some other religion, or if somebody actually did criticize Islam, then it's good to have him killed? (It may be that nobody...

Good one! Yet only the first result seems to be anything related to Hinduism, and that too is nothing to do with any anti-blasphemy law. Meanwhile, from Wikipedia, The Pakistani Catholic bishops' Justice and Peace Commission complained in July 2005 that since 1988, some 650 people had...