(July 17, 2015 at 4:48 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: The PC brigade do have a healthy job here denouncing anything which even remotely looks like criticism. I'm 100% against trolling people online who have, say, lost someone in an accident, but I don't think arresting them is both logical or going to stop it occuring in the future.
Equally, I think the entire discourse about not saying anything negative about Islam (a detestable and poisonous religion) is really damaging some social and community relations in the UK. The continued equating of Islam and Muslim is really hampering much needed discourse on the role of communities in general wider society. I don't agree with a lot of what the Pastor in NI says, but being arrested for criticizing an idea is probably one of the worst indictments that can be made against the UK at the moment. Thought crime is not a crime.
Apparently it is a crime :
I can't criticize as all European countries have hate speech laws, either implicit or explicit.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
