Sentences with phrase «blasphemy law as»

One small start would be to repeal Canada's blasphemy law as an unconstitutional anachronism.

Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities.

The US State Department flagged anti-conversion and blasphemy laws as one of its biggest concerns for religious freedom globally, stating in 2012 that «such laws often violate freedoms of religion and expression and often are applied in a discriminatory manner.»

Not exact matches

Senator Charles Schumer, i n what Republicans saw as tax - po licy blasphemy, declared President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reform «obsolete» as a model fo r ov erhauling tax laws.

The laws cover other forms of blasphemy against Islam as well.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

As the prime minister of Pakistan visited the scene of the Muslim nation's worst Christian persecution in recent memory Thursday, observers wondered if the violence will finally prompt the repeal of the country's notorious blasphemy laws.

Governmental restrictions include items such as blasphemy laws, bans against evangelism, and preventing religious groups from constructing houses of worship.

Noreen's case has attracted worldwide attention and led to widespread criticism of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, as well as raised hopes the laws would finally be amended.

Days after a Muslim gold scavenger slit a Christian competitor's throat for alleged blasphemy, an influential Islamic group has told Pakistan to change its laws to protect its citizens against rampant false accusations that afflict Muslims as well as Christians.

But if the co-workers insist, and the co-workers are upright citizens reporting the blasphemy for no ulterior reason, but as blashpemy per se, then she is liable to face the death sentence under Islamic Law.

A Wall Street Journal op - ed notes how Pakistan's blasphemy laws, «almost as a matter of routine, are misused to settle personal scores.»

The rift has provoked Egypt to charge Ahmadis with blasphemy, Saudi Arabia to deport them and Pakistan to pass a law that designates Ahmadis as non-Muslims.

To this day, Islamic law mandates death for certain crimes such as blasphemy and apostasy.

Because the laws took the Bible as their reference point, it was possible to upheld liberty of conscience while at the same time restraining external acts like blasphemy which were inimical to good order and government.

Finally, though they are not as numerous, but still quite important in their influence, there are Reconstructionists, who aspire to replace civil codes with biblical laws, even to the point, among hard - liners, of making homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, propagation of false doctrine, and incorrigible behavior by children punishable by death.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) today welcomes the abolition of the blasphemy laws, and hails this change in legislation as a victory for equality and freedom of expression.

As of right now, it seems like blasphemy laws do not cover «unofficial» religions like Judaism or Orthodox, and adding these religions would likely cause conflict.

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The blasphemy law, which is part of the constitution of Pakistan as the Criminal Code, (See esp.

Anyone interested in reading further about Canada's blasphemy law should definitely check out Jeremy Patrick's excellent paper Not Dead, Just Sleeping: Canada's Prohibition on Blasphemous Libel as a Case Study in Obsolete Legislation, which is available here.

It was not blasphemy at common law to attack any religion except Christianity, and an attack on the Christian religion had to be such as tended to lead to a breach of the peace.

As a key founding partner, CFI Canada helped to launch the International Coalition Against Blasphemy Laws.

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Many other countries have laws against intentionally and publicly offending someone's religious beliefs, which is similar to, but not the same as, a blasphemy law.