FUCK blasphemy laws.

[Brian37]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/se...mir-aslani

[pocaracas]

It's at times like these that I like living in a country with a constitution that starts off with:

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Artigo 1.º
República Portuguesa

Portugal é uma República soberana, baseada na dignidade da pessoa humana e na vontade popular e empenhada na construção de uma sociedade livre, justa e solidária.


Artigo 2.º
Estado de direito democrático

A República Portuguesa é um Estado de direito democrático, baseado na soberania popular, no pluralismo de expressão e organização política democráticas, no respeito e na garantia de efectivação dos direitos e liberdades fundamentais e na separação e interdependência de poderes, visando a realização da democracia económica, social e cultural e o aprofundamento da democracia participativa.

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Oh yeah... you guys can't understand this... damn... google, lend a hand:

Article 1
Portuguese Republic

Portugal is a sovereign Republic, based on the dignity of the human person and the will of the people, committed to building a free, just and solidary society.


Article 2
Democratic rule of law

The Portuguese Republic is a democratic state, based on popular sovereignty, pluralism of expression and democratic political organization, respecting and ensuring the effecting fundamental rights and freedoms and the separation and independence of powers, aimed at achieving economic democracy , social and cultural development and the deepening of participatory democracy.

The minute this changes, is the minute I decide to move out.

[DramaQueen]

Don't the Shia believe in Ijtihad?

[FreeTony]

It is alleged he was killed because "He had interpreted Jonah’s story in the Qur’an as a symbolic tale"

It's lucky he didn't say that is was stolen from the Bible, though I'm not sure what extra punishments they could have added. I'm sure, being experts, they'd have though of something.

[Brian37]

The Koran, Bible, Torah, Talmud, Vedas are all books of myth written in antiquity by humans who had no clue of scientific reality.

In "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, this behavior he explains is evolutionary. He describes an alpha male bird in a flock reacting violently to a subordinate, even if the subordinate is offering the alpha male bird a branch to help build a nest. Humans stupidly want to think we are above evolution when the reality is our ability to be cruel and compassionate are in our evolution, not holy books, boarders, race, blood, political party or class.

[LostLocke]

It's at times like these that I like living in a country with a constitution that starts off with:

I couldn't agree more.
As backasswards as the US is sometimes, I'm just glad our Constitution doesn't contain 'blasphemy' laws. Whatever the hell those 'laws' are supposed to be anyway....

[Lemonvariable72]

But everybody remember Islam is a religion of PEACE! This is only a small minority of Muslims that execute people for apostasy, and heresy. I mean its not like they are some backwards brutes that forces their women to cover head to toe or something because some pedo prophet said so.

[Brian37]

But everybody remember Islam is a religion of PEACE! This is only a small minority of Muslims that execute people for apostasy, and heresy. I mean its not like they are some backwards brutes that forces their women to cover head to toe or something because some pedo prophet said so.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!

Yes, attack the current climate that far to much of the east is still infected with.

It was not that long ago, that white Christian men, picked up bibles and justified slavery. It was not that long ago that white christian men beat up Susan B Anthony for wanting a right to vote.

Susan B Anthony..""I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

Not to mention the dark ages, Inquisition and Crusades.

ALL religions are a result of our human ignorance of our natural grouping. They turn our natural behavior into a comic book to a political level.

All religions are like volcanos. They can be pretty when dormant, but all have the potential to explode.

In America we still have Christians trying to turn back the clock. We have Christians who want to control bodies they do not own. They discriminate against gays, and even liberal Christians through gerrymandering.

Having said that. Humans like Ann Frank, and Martin Luther King, and Malala, cannot be lumped in with the few who fuck things up for the rest of humanity.

Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in us. Not religion, not holy books, not political parties, race, boarders or class.

You wont get rid of Islam by force, anymore than they can rid the world of Christianity, anymore than atheist would want either trying to get rid of us.

Humans in the west have become more civil because of secular common law and it happened in spite of religion, not because of religion.

[SweetPearl]

But everybody remember Islam is a religion of PEACE!

Or maybe... 'Religion of PIECES'?

I don't understand why the hell we even have religions.

“innovations in the religion” and “spreading corruption on earth” Those freaking hypocrites. Agh. They should be the ones hanged.

[Minimalist]

We have religions because many people are stupid.