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Any? That is quite a swath. But it is good that you are willing to extend legal protection to all religions. What you are saying, and correct me if my assumption is incorrect, is despite our 'freedom of speech' there are some forms of speech that should be excluded from legal protection, such as libel and slander, or yelling 'Fire' in a crowded theater when there is no fire, and in your argument, religions should also be so excluded. What you are also saying is that it is up to us to decide, based upon certain morals and emotional reactions, what forms of speech and their contents, should be excluded from legal protection. Libel is a FORM of speech and the CONTENTS within could do irreparable harm to a person. Therefore we must exclude libel from legal protection.Blasphemy against any religious personality of any religion should be punishable by death.Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you poke your nose anywhere.
Laws against Holocaust denial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the source above, only Israel has laws specifically naming 'The Holocaust'...
The Europeans have laws that are broad -- genocide -- not just of Jews but of every non-German ethnicity.Denial of Holocaust (Prohibition) Law, 5746-1986
Definitions 1. In this Law, "crime against the Jewish people" and "crime against humanity" have the same respective meanings as in the "Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Law, 5710-1950.
For example with Belgium...
So if blasphemy against religions in general is worthy of legal prosecution, I see no reasons why muslims should have any issues with the Europeans being comprehensive -- genocide -- with their laws.Negationism Law (1995, amendments of 1999)
Article 1 Whoever, in the circumstances given in article 444 of the Penal Code denies, grossly minimises, attempts to justify, or approves the genocide committed by the German National Socialist Regime during the Second World War shall be punished by a prison sentence of eight days to one year, and by a fine of twenty six francs to five thousand francs.
France stated...
Note -- one or more crimes against humanity. This would include the Holocaust, of course.Art 9. As an amendment to Article 24 of the law of July 29, 1881 on the freedom of the press, article 24 (a) is as follows written: <<Art. 24 (a). - those who have disputed the existence of one or more crimes against humanity such as they are defined by Article 6 of the statute of the international tribunal military annexed in the agreement of London of August 8, 1945 and which were a carried out either by the members of an organization declared criminal pursuant to Article 9 of the aforementioned statute, or by a person found guilty such crimes by a French or international jurisdiction shall be punished by one month to one years imprisonment or a fine.