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A 'No' Campaign in the Upcoming Blasphemy Referendum?

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    #182
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    I'm really looking forward to calling The Prophet Mohammed every name under the sun in public once this is passed.

    Take that snowflakes.

    You won't be doing that in Boards.ie anyway.
    If you are ever tasked with drafting a table quiz here is a nice one for you:

    Question: What links the following:
    1. The crew of the Mary Celeste;
    2. Lord Lucan;
    3. Shergar;
    4. The Muslim forum in Boards.ie?

    Answer: All of them vanished without explanation.


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    #183
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 38,413 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Zubeneschamali wrote:
    This is a bad reason to keep blasphemy, as blasphemy is not stopping hate crime legislation.
    Yeah it'd be confusing if you called someone an fn Muslim. Is it blasphemy or a hate crime?


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    #184
    swampgas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭swampgas


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Yeah it'd be confusing if you called someone an fn Muslim. Is it blasphemy or a hate crime?

    If it's a hate crime it will be because the hate crime legislation makes it so. Legislation created by a democratically elected government.

    If it's blasphemy it will be deemed to be so by some bishop / mullah / rabbi / pastor / druid who declares something is offensive to his religion - because he says so.

    See the problem yet?


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    #185
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,886 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Seve OB wrote: »
    I'm voting no because I don't think it is right that anyone can say what they want on a derogatory manor about any religion.

    If you say that Jesus was the son of god, you've just insulted islam.

    See how this works, or rather, doesn't?

    We have laws about incitement to hatred. We shouldn't have laws which make disagreeing with the tenets of someone else's religion a crime, and we certainly shouldn't have that in our constitution.

    The current blasphemy law actually incentivises extremism - the more outraged the reaction the greater the chances of a prosecution.

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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    #186
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Yeah it'd be confusing if you called someone an fn Muslim. Is it blasphemy or a hate crime?

    It would be a hate crime, just as calling
    someobe a fn Christian would be.

    Calling Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ or The Prophet Muhammad a fn cnut, now that would be blasphemy.


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    #187
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,886 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Anybody who thinks that blasphemy laws are OK really needs to watch the stoning scene from Life Of Brian again and again and again until eventually they get it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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