RE: 11 Years in Prison for Posting on an Atheist Website
June 15, 2012 at 10:35 pm
(June 14, 2012 at 3:54 am)cratehorus Wrote: Quote:Prosecutors have charged Aan under the Electronic Information and Transaction Law, which prohibits inciting hatred or enmity of a religious group, and under the country’s blasphemy provision, Article 156a, which criminalizes “hostility, hatred or contempt” and “disgracing” of a religion. Article 156a also prohibits attempts to persuade others to leave their religion and embrace atheism.
Which, according to most theists, would be “hostility, hatred or contempt” and “disgracing” of a religion. IOW, the law violates itself. I guess the members of the legislature are too stupid to understand the law they passed according to their own definitions.
Quote:The Indonesian legal system is designed for unequal treatment of unbelievers. The constitution officially recognizes the religions of Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism, and stipulates that every citizen must believe in a supreme being.
Why doesn't it also require that God exist, and other impossible demands?
Quote:A government that singles out some citizens’ conceptions of the sacred for official protection is guilty of a gross failure of equal treatment. This principle of equality is supported by recent developments in international human rights law. Last summer the United Nations Human Rights Committee commented that laws restricting blasphemy are inherently discriminatory because they give to traditional believers a legal protection that is not available to the religiously heterodox or secular.
Fortunately, for the moron set, statements like the one made by the UN have no force.
