Blasphemous law in Muslim Countries

[Jacpher]

Muslim countries need to introduce a blasphemy law that prohibits all blasphemous publication written or spoken. Such law can be used to not only deter future violators of Islamic sanctity but also punish those newspapers. The law should call for the persecution and extradition of anyone who commits a deliberate act of blasphemous libel directly or indirectly, against Islam or its holy prophets be fined and imprisoned. The authors of publications, the newspapers, its correspondents, or its affiliations be banned to operate in Muslim countries until they comply with the law.

 

 

I think the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) can propose similar law, thus stopping these racist news outlets from insulting our religion. No one would have dared to insult our great prophet scw if such law were in place. The editors of the newspapers would not want to be summoned to appear in court and possibly jailed in a Muslim country, say 5 years later when vacationing in a Muslim country or those with extradition treaty. Many European countries have similar laws and as a matter fact, UK has one but it only applies to the Church of England, not all religions.

 

The issue would not be a matter of censoring freedom of expression, rather breaking a law of another country and answering to their court system. I know it would be difficult to enforce and no doubt many Arab countries would be pressured, but who know what Iran or Malaysia would do? What do you think?

[Castro]

Good Ducaqabe, this would never work. Sorry to be blunt but laws made in Cairo will not prosecute a Danish cartoonist. It's that simple. What it will do is increase the censorship and oppression Egyptian journalists are already suffering from.

 

This battle will not be waged in the Middle East or any other muslim country. We can abstain from cheese and never drink Coca Cola for as long as we live but that won't mean a thing to those we perceive as offenders. My initial euphoria of the boycott faded with the eventual realization that its futile as with all the ones that came before it. The battle has to be fought right here in the west and in the courts. Bomb threats of embassies and suicide missions to cafes won't do it. In fact, it will do just the opposite and only "prove" what the cartoons were claiming.

 

Saaxib when blacks fought segregation in the courts against a vicious and blood-thirsty system, they succeeded with hard work and ingenuity. They used his system to beat Jim Crowe. We need to do the same. We need to beat the Danes with their own laws. Their insistence that no laws were broken is injury on top of the cartoon insults. What they're basically telling us is we're not people that understand the rule of law and that we shouldn't expect to be treated with any respect.

 

This thing must be challenged, yes, but in the courts and not by taking guns to the EU mission in Gaza. We're far more numerous, educated and wealthy than the ex-slaves 100 years ago but how come we don't have the strength, committment or the ingenuity they managed to muster. The enemy within, saaxib, is as bad as the enemy without.

[Jacpher]

It may not be effective in Cairo or Amman but it would certainly be a good deterrence tool knowing it is in place and can be enforced in some parts of the Muslim world.

 

I’m not suggesting to limit the options nor am I advocating for violence. I’m engaging the Muslim community & government at large to tackle the problem and receive the respect & recognition other religions given. We should challenge them by getting their court systems involved. What I don’t like is that relying & limiting only to boycotting which does not give any tangible result. We may have the wealth and the knowledge but the desire and drive is almost non-existence.

 

I was watching the news last night and was surprised to know there’s a million little lawsuits filled against the publisher of James Frey, the controversial author of supposedly non-fiction book, Million Little Pieces. So go ahead and form a million Muslim plaintiffs and utilize their respective constitutional rights.