I never mentioned hostages and related in the same post. If you are going to make a lame joke at least get it right.[/QUOTE]
Just because I didnât quote your earlier post too doran mean my lame joke wasnât right.
We released a statement earlier for those interested.
THE Mid West Humanists (MWH) group is calling on voters to contact local TDs to demand a referendum on removing the prohibition of blasphemy from the Irish constitution.
The group, which has members in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary, says it is launching the campaign to support freedom of speech following last weekâs murders at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Stating they support the right to life of those killed in Paris, the humanists say that this also extends to freedom of speech, and everyoneâs right to read any âwriting, cartoon or other communication, whether or not it criticises or satirises any idea, whether religious, political, social, sporting, or scientificâ.
The group also praised Charlie Hebdo staff âfor publishing words and pictures without any respect for the ideas of several religions. In doing their job, they also enable people in Ireland to read things that are prohibited in some countriesâ.
âIreland is weak in secularism, as the Constitution since 1937 states that blasphemy is an offence, and in 2009 our legislators continued a law to give effect to that article of the Constitution. Government and other people in Pakistan quote Irelandâs law to say that it is normal, including in Europe, for the law to prohibit criticism of religion,â said an MWH spokesperson.
âIn 2013, the Constitutional Convention asked the Government to hold a referendum on the law against blasphemy from the Constitution. The Government promised that it would hold this referendum, but last year they reneged on thisâ, the spokesperson added.
I didnât say it wasnât fair game, and thatâs a good point. My point was that itâs treatment was not âequalâ, on a number of levels.[/QUOTE]
If Muslims decide to take to take offence more than other religions do, well thatâs all the more reason to increase the lampooning of their utterly ridiculous belief system.
says the giy who gets offended when a few home truths were pointed out to him about a certain gga journalist and a little girl, the guy who goes nuts when someone dares to say LFC fans wernt faultless at Hillsborough and the guy who went absolutely nuts when I requested to use Sid Waddell as my username
excellent exchanges here between @Sidney[/USER] and [USER=80]@The Selfish Giant @glasagusban is sitting there in the middle his head looking left and right gawking on like a simpleton
Cameron and Obama about to hold a joint press conference at the White House live at any moment, CNN are ready and waiting. I presume itâs something to do with the towel-heads.
Saudi police beheaded a female prisoner today⌠These fucks deserve all the abuse they get⌠Glas will be along in a minute to defend the police and criticise the harsh working conditions these police work under.
And thereâs a blogger there got 10 years and 1000 lashes for questioning the religious leadership. Heâs getting the lashes in installments of 50 for 20 weeks. And those cunts are funding the madrassas radicalising goms and funding a lot of the terrorists.
They wonât get abuse while they are being backed by the US pal. They have the worst human rights in the Middle East and make Iran look secular in comparison.