(September 14, 2011 at 4:42 pm)bozo Wrote: Look it's quite simple, the woman has been charged. Her case will be heard. A verdict will be returned. Either she will be found guilty of racial harassment or not. If she had displayed a teddy bear in her window she wouldn't be facing a charge. Do you understand?
And what if she had named the teddy bear "Mohammad"? Hmm? Do we start trying people for the names of their pets? What if they display them publicly?
Here, let me fix it for you, Sudan-style (sizzle!):
(September 14, 2011 at 4:42 pm)بوزو Wrote: Look it's quite simple, the woman has been charged. Her case will be heard. A verdict will be returned. Either she will be found guilty of racial harassment blasphemy or not. If she had displayed a teddy bear gollywog in her window she wouldn't be facing a charge. Do you understand?
By the way 'بوزو' is bozo in Arabic.
I understand there is more in common with the No-Blasphemy Law folk and you than you give credit for.
A measure of free speech is not when you like it, but when it is offensive. As that sets the bounds.
Of course, (some of) you Brits like authoritarianism. Hell, you guys even have a defined racist party with fascist leanings and proclivities (BNP). So I suppose there's no accounting for taste.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more