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	Blasphemy
		Blasphemy is defamation of God or gods, and by extension of gross irreverence towards any person or thing worthy of exalted esteem.
		When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.\n:* Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
		Such laws still exist in several countries, such as in Austria (Articles 188, 189 of the criminal code), Finland (Section 10 of chapter 17 of the penal code), Germany (Article 166 of the criminal code), Italy, Spain (Article 525 of the criminal code) and United Kingdom.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/b/bl/blasphemy.html (489 words)

	Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom
		In the 17th century, blasphemy was declared a common law offence by the Court of King's Bench, punishable by the common law courts.
		The commissioners on criminal law (sixth report) remarked that although the law forbade all denial of the being and providence of God or the Christian religion, it is only when irreligion assumes the form of an insult to God and man that the interference of the criminal law took place.
		By the law of Scotland, as it originally stood, the punishment of blasphemy was death, a penalty last imposed on Thomas Aikenhead in Edinburgh in 1697.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/scottish_anatomy/blasphemy_law.html (1482 words)

	Vexen Crabtree's Live Journal
		Blasphemy laws are invoked when closed-minded religious bigots want to stifle the free speech of others.
		The blasphemy laws are used to stifle artistic expression and free speech, such as in R. v Lemon 1979 when a poem about Jesus was published in a gay magazine.
		That blasphemy laws are used in such a way - to protect concepts from being questioned - is not only wrong and closed-minded, but undemocratic.
	vexen.livejournal.com /tag/blasphemy (600 words)

	blasphemy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about blasphemy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blasphemy was originally defined in the UK as ‘publishing any matter which contradicts the teaching of the Church of England’; since 1883 it has been redefined as a ‘vilification’ or attack on Christianity, likely to ‘outrage the feelings of believers’.
		Blasphemy is still an offence in English common law, despite several recommendations (for example by the Law Commission 1985) that the law of blasphemy should be abolished or widened to apply to all religious faiths.
		Blasphemy laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /blasphemy (301 words)

	United_Kingdom_CBC_3
		ECRI encourages the authorities of the United Kingdom in their efforts to improve the methods by which racist incidents are reported and recorded and to monitor the implementation of the provisions against racially and religiously aggravated offences.
		ECRI recommends that the authorities of the United Kingdom continue to raise the awareness of the courts of the need to ensure that all racially or religiously aggravated offences are duly punished and that the sentences handed down adequately reflect the gravity of the offences.
		The authorities of the United Kingdom report that they are concerned at the apparent rise in the number of persons from ethnic minority groups who have died in custody and that they have commissioned independent research to try and establish the causes of this phenomenon.
	www.coe.int /T/E/human_rights/Ecri/1-ECRI/2-Country-by-country_approach/United_Kingdom/United_Kingdom_CBC_3.asp (10015 words)

	Blasphemy.eu
		The last person to be jailed in the United States for blasphemy was Abner Kneeland in 1838, as decided by the Massachusetts case Commonwealth v.
		This is binding, but the government is yet to formally amend the law, which means that the provision for life sentence still formally exists, and is used by the government as a concession to critics of the death penalty.
		Christian theology may condemn blasphemy, as in the Luke 12:10, where blaspheming the Holy Spirit is spoken of as unforgivable.
	www.blasphemy.eu (1321 words)

	Blasphemy law essential! - Letters to Editor - Daily DAWN
		The law of the land should be invoked as per the historic perspective, tradition, culture and aspirations of the people.
		The opponents argue that the blasphemy law is being and prone to be abused.
		Law is supposed to provide justice and not to be twisted according to the wishes of a particular slot.
	www.thepersecution.org /news/dawn0210ltrs.html (1138 words)

	Blasphemy
		It is the belief in a god who is cruel, revengeful, quick-tempered and capricious; a god who punishes the innocent for the guilty; a god who listens with delight to the shrieks of the tortured and gazes enraptured on their spurting blood.
		Blasphemy is a padlock which hypocrisy tries to put on the lips of all honest men.
		It is blasphemy to live on the fruits of other men's labor, to prevent growth of the human mind, to persecute the growth of the human mind, to persecute for opinion's sake, to abuse your wife and children, to increase in any manner the sum of human misery.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /lectures/blasphemy.html (3815 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Blasphemy
		Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods.
		This is binding, but the government has yet to formally amend the law, which means that the provision for life sentence still formally exists, and is used by the government as a concession to critics of the death penalty.
		Christian theology may condemn blasphemy, as in the Luke Bible (World English)/Luke#12:10, where blaspheming the Holy Spirit is spoken of as unforgivable.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Blasphemy (1555 words)

	United Kingdom's Blasphemy Laws, History and Challenges. By Vexen Crabtree
		The UK still has old anachronistic blasphemy laws on its statute book, they were once thought to be abandoned to disuse but they have been revived since the 1970s.
		In the seventeenth century, blasphemy was declared a common law offence by the Court of the King's Bench[...].
		Blasphemy is required to weed out people who would restrict our speech, not for fear of us insulting people, but for us questioning concepts.
	www.vexen.co.uk /religion/blasphemy.html (1980 words)

	Blasphemy - My Journey through Hell- Statement by Dr M. Younus Shaikh:
		In another famous case, a Christian, Ayub Masih was condemned to death for blasphemy on the unsupported evidence of a neighbour, Muhammad Akram who was involved with him in a land dispute and who was awarded property belonging to the accused after the case was decided.
		The law itself is unjust and inequitable, the offence it treats is poorly defined and open to abuse, and its operation has been widely misused and abused.
		Since the introduction of Sharia law in Pakistan in 1986, the blasphemy law has been used on hundreds of occasions by fundamentalists to silence moderate opponents, to intimidate non-Muslims and to settle personal scores.
	www.mukto-mona.com /Articles/Younus_Sheikh/blasphemy.htm (1616 words)

	Blasphemy: European Law and Cases
		Although the interpretation of historic and recent case law is problematic, there is some movement towards use of hatespeech legislation rather than specific blasphemy provisions in criminal or other codes in restricting expression that might offend adherents of a particular faith/organisation or incite hostility to those adherents.
		The 1991 Law Reform Commission of Ireland consultation paper On The Crime of Libel suggested that "there is no place for the offence of blasphemous libel in a society which respects freedom of speech".
		Because blasphemy as an offence could not be abolished without a constitutional referendum the Commission recommended creation of a new statutory offence of blasphemous libel, which would cover matter "the sole effect of which is likely to cause outrage to a substantial number of adherents concerning a matter or matters held sacred" by a religion.
	www.caslon.com.au /blasphemyprofile5.htm (3549 words)

	The death penalty under the blasphemy law - Amnesty International Report ASA 33/10/96
		The law does not prescribe a particular manner or place in which the death penalty for blasphemy is to be carried out.
		The available evidence indicates that charges were brought as a measure to intimidate and punish members of minority religious communities or non-conforming members of the majority community and that the hostility towards minority groups appeared in many cases compounded by personal enmity, professional envy or economic rivalry or a desire to gain political advantage.
		According to reports, the Pakistan Law Commission expressed concern at the abuse of authority by the police when dealing with blasphemy cases and the misuse of the law for ulterior purposes by various political and sectarian organizations.
	www.thepersecution.org /ai/amnst196.html (1404 words)

	United Kingdom
		The 2001 census for the whole of the United Kingdom reported that approximately 42 million persons (almost 72 percent of the population) identified themselves as Christians.
		The law requires religious education in publicly maintained schools throughout the United Kingdom for ages three to nineteen.
		Throughout the United Kingdom, the shape and content of religious instruction is decided on a local basis.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71416.htm (4964 words)

	The Spirit of Legal History
		Few European law students leave school without the cases of the javelin throwers, or the barber in the baths, having become part of their intellectual baggage on the development of contributory negligence.
		If one bases the answer on the number of law students who take courses in European legal history or the number of law schools that require a course in legal history of their graduates, the answer is little or none.
		Law, he seems to argue, can be created by generations of subtle minds working out legal problems by using logic and elegant arguments that convince the profession.
	faculty.cua.edu /pennington/Law508/spirit.htm (6469 words)

	BRIA(15:1) Origins of Islamic Law, United States, Iran, Salman Rushdie, Blasphemy, Freedom of Expression, muslims
		The classic Sharia was not a code of laws, but a body of religious and legal scholarship that continued to develop for the next 1,000 years.
		Eventually, the United States concluded that Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlavi was the only Iranian leader who could keep his country from falling into the grasp of the Soviets.
		The United States should continue to pressure Iran to renounce terrorism, end its development of weapons of mass destruction, and behave according to the standards of the world community before offering to restore diplomatic relations.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria15_1.html (5918 words)

	America Responds to Terrorism -- Blasphemy Salman Rushdie
		Blasphemy refers to the act of offending deeply held religious beliefs.
		Perhaps the earliest prohibition against blasphemy appeared in the Ten Commandments, which declared, "You shall not revile God." In the Jewish tradition, this meant that no one could verbally abuse God or publicly reject belief in him.
		This common law prohibition against Christian blasphemy has continued to the present day in the United Kingdom.
	www.crf-usa.org /terror/rushdie.htm (1882 words)

	Diasporic Communities and Identity Formation:
		The extended family is of fundamental importance as a unit of decision making and with respect to the relations of its members with wider society.
		They also point out that the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom covers only Christianity, and there appears to be no plans to change this even though there is a large and growing population of Muslims in the country.
		Information given to the author on the number of Kashmiris in the United Kingdom from the Indian controlled part of Kashmir during an interview for this paper in March 2000.
	www.rcpbml.org.uk /wdie-07/DiCoIdFo.htm (4330 words)

	75pc of blasphemy cases are against Muslims
		Blasphemy laws: 75% of cases are against Muslims
		These figures collected by the interior ministry, from the provincial headquarters, showed a situation which is completely opposite to the propaganda unleashed by the Western media organs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) against Pakistan, that the blasphemy law is directed against the country's minorities.
		General Pervez Musharraf had announced last year to amend the procedure for the registration of blasphemy cases so that it is not misused.
	alhafeez.org /rashid/blasphempc.html (335 words)

	Blasphemy
		For a Christian, blasphemy is against the trinity or their own doctrines, for Muslims blasphemy is against Muhammad or their religion.
		Allowing these blasphemy laws to continue bars the progress of a tolerant society and continues the oppression of religious minorities.
		Opposing the blasphemy laws is in the interest of the global community, of tolerance and of the advancement of critical thought and compassion.
	www.dpjs.co.uk /blasphemy.html (1714 words)

	The Kingdom of God
		In the gospel of Matthew, the kingdom of God is called the kingdom of heaven in the majority of cases.
		The kingdom of God the Son is a visible, literal, corporal and future kingdom that has boundaries of time and space.
		The meaning of “the kingdom of God is within you” is that the kingdom was within their grasp or within their midst.
	www.ffruits.org /firstfruits/kingdominluke17.aspx (5503 words)

	International Religious Freedom Report 2002: United Kingdom
		The law requires religious education in publicly maintained schools throughout the country.
		According to the Education Reform Act of 1988, it forms part of the core curriculum for students in England and Wales (the requirements for Scotland were outlined in the Education Act of 1980.) The shape and content of religious instruction is decided on a local basis.
		Several religious organizations, in association with the Commission for Racial Equality, are attempting to abolish the law or broaden its protection to include all faiths.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13989.htm (2915 words)

	Vexen Crabtree's Live Journal - United Kingdom's Blasphemy Laws
		Even though I am not totally in favour of keeping the blasphemy law as how it is currently, it is totally beyond comprehension how you could believe that blasphemy is not a big a deal!!!
		I think that the law should be extended to other religions rather than to scrap it all together.
		Sheila Bone (Osbourne's Law Dictionary) and "Constitutional & Administrative Law" fourth and fifth editions, all state that the case is R v Lemon.
	vexen.livejournal.com /260331.html (590 words)

	Blasphemy Petition Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
		We at Christian Voice are concerned with Labour's intent to introduce a law against inciting religious hatred, and possibly to abolish at the same time the law against blasphemy.
		We do not believe that a law against inciting religious hatred is in the interests of good relations between faiths and we believe it would impede the preaching of the Gospel.
		Christian Voice is a prophetic ministry in the sense that we attempt, with God's grace, to analyse current events in the light of scripture, proclaim God's word to those in public life and provide the information which Christians need in order to pray with the mind of God in these dark days.
	www.ipetitions.com /petition/blasphemy (358 words)

	Religioscope: Religion: analyst describes Europe's blasphemy laws - Interview with David Nash
		But the most viable blasphemy law is still in the U.K., though I notice Greece tried to bring a case in the last 18 months.
		There was a case in the 1830s that meant the law had decided the Catholic religion was not protected against blasphemy.
		They don't tend to do anything to the blasphemy law but they would create a separate law to protect people's ethnicity and identity, obviously because you can't produce a subsequent law to protect someone else's beliefs in opposition to a different religion's beliefs.
	religion.info /english/interviews/article_226.shtml (937 words)

	The Blasphemy Trial of C. B. Reynolds - Part I
		His "law," therefore, we presume, is a survival of old English practice, as incongruous in this century as would appear the dress of the people of England of three hundred years ago.
		As she takes her law as to the competency of witnesses from the practice of the English courts of a century or two ago, so does she get her blasphemy law, almost verbatim, from the statutes of the New England provinces.
		In the enactment of her blasphemy law New Jersey jealously maintains her reputation of being about a century behind the age.
	www.atheists.org /Atheism/blasphemy1.html (4613 words)

	After Nine Eleven, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon
		On November 7, United States President Bush sought to separate the war in Afghanistan from the Arab-Israeli conflict by saying that the war against terror would succeed, "peace or no peace in the Middle East." The response from the Arab world was swift.
		On May 3, the United States committed itself to join Russia, Europe, and the United Nations in a peace conference on the Middle East to be held early that summer.
		In early November, 2002, Egypt was criticized by the United States and Israel for a TV series slated to be shown during Ramadan based in part on the anti-Semitic The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/afterseptembereleven.php (8523 words)

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