Sentences with phrase «of blasphemy laws»

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.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «This completely ridiculous ruling represents a further encroachment on free speech in our society, tantamount to a reintroduction of blasphemy laws by the back door.

«Decades of misuse of the blasphemy laws have resulted in a situation where even voicing disagreement with these laws can lead to violence.»

After reviewing the apparent collapse of the freethinking movement after 1900, Schmidt turns to the post-war shift in Supreme Court jurisprudence: the rejection of blasphemy laws, limits on the school - supported study of religion, and the overturning of theistic requirements for public office or jury service.

(Critics of blasphemy laws like Pakistan's argue the laws are primarily used for petty vendettas and persecuting minority groups.)

Not exact matches

Per the Gospels, Jesus of Nazareth was brought up on charges of Sedition and Blasphemy by the Sanhedrin, led by Ciaphas and his father -LRB-- in - law) Annas.

The same goes for teaching on jihad, apostasy, blasphemy laws, and the place of non-Muslim citizens in an Islamic society.

He was certainly found guilty of blasphemy and heresy, which is absolutely right, because if what your book says is true then he deserved death, but the only way that would happen is under Roman law, from Pilate.

Hanging of Mumtaz Qadri «a watershed moment» against Pakistan's blasphemy laws, says Christian campaigner

While blasphemy laws claim to seek religious harmony through uniformity, in practice they provide cover for the pursuit of personal vendettas and crush fundamental freedoms for Pakistan's religious minorities.

ICC's Regional Manager for South Asia, William Stark, said: «Blasphemy laws continue to be one of the greatest threats to Christianity in Pakistan.

The militant group left a letter at the scene saying they murdered Shahbaz Bhatti because of his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

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

Mumtaz Qadri (below) was the bodyguard of the governor of Punjab Province Salman Taseer, but he murdered him in 2011 because he was an outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws - which are often used to target Christians and other minorities.

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.

A blasphemy law would ban both sides of the issue.

«Pakistan should get rid of these poisonous blasphemy laws.

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.

In 2011, Salmaan Taseer, the governor of the Punjab, and Shahbaz Bhatti, the national minorities» minister, were shot dead because of their support for Noreen and criticism of what Clarke calls «Pakistan's barbaric blasphemy laws.»

Bibi's death sentence was upheld by the Muslim - majority nation's Supreme Court in October 2014, reigniting international disapproval of Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- A Christian girl accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws by allegedly burning pages containing texts from the Quran will have to wait at least another two weeks to learn her fate after a court ordered a stay of proceedings in her case Monday.

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.

The crime of blasphemy was enshrined into Pakistani law under British rule, but strengthened during the years of military dictator Muhammad Zia - ul - Haq.

CNN: Setback for Pakistani teen facing blasphemy charges A Christian girl accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws by allegedly burning pages containing texts from the Quran will have to wait at least another two weeks to learn her fate after a court ordered a stay of proceedings in her case Monday.

In related news, Pakistani Catholics have begun collecting testimony to declare Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian politician and outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws, a martyr.

Two years after Noreen was first accused of breaking the country's blasphemy laws, Taseer, leader of Pakistan's largest province, began speaking up on her behalf.

was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.

CT has regularly reported on Pakistan, its blasphemy laws, and resulting major incidents of persecution.

Reuters: Pakistani mob burns alive a man accused of desecrating the Koran A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Koran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws.

Besides the fact that blasphemy laws are abusive tools of oppression, besides totalitarian religious states being unused to freedom of speech, besides the differences between Islam and Christianity... Putting all that aside, how does one human being rejoice that another is going to be killed?

If the fundies ever do get complete control of this country, they will make blasphemy laws to get rid of the non believers.

Those guys get everything the fundie wants; Unlimited oil money, guns, blasphemy laws, a herem of woman, the right to kill anyone who is different, the right to kill and subjugate woman, and force others to believe in your god the way you say they should.

When Jesus was accused of blasphemy because he claimed to be the Son of God, he answered the Jews: «Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

They want the UN to impose a blasphemy law if anything negative is said about Islam, that in it's self should have all sorts of red blinking lights going off and on... all across America.

A law against blasphemy is the absolute best indicator that you can not substantiate your beliefs with good reasoning and instead must rely on a cowardly and primitive use of force.

He claimed things that were considered to be Blasphemy according to Jewish law when he said the Father and I are One and before Abraham was «I Am» He was claiming that He was the «Great I AM» of the Old testament, now come in the flesh and came to pay the price of sin for man, the only acceptable perfect sacrifice, the lamb wihtout blemish, that God would accept because he was indeed God in flesh.

The court unanimously concurred, and the Prisoner was convicted of blasphemy, a capital offense in Jewish law.

Khalid Latif's veiled threats of violence in a letter to NYU's President if he were to allow a student organization to display Danish cartoons of Muhammad is evidence that he is no fan of freedom of speech and believes in defending sharia law's blasphemy statute (for lack of a better word).

19) A Pakistani minister, who had said he was getting death threats because of his stance against the country's controversial blasphemy law, was shot and killed Wednesday, 3/2/2011

Bhatti, who was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, was well known for campaigning against the nation's strict blasphemy law and lobbying for the rights of religious minorities.

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

Also, I believe that if all Americans were given a vote to decapitate either «The Religious» «atheists» or «No one» you would find a majority of voting for «No one» with «atheists» being a close second bolstered by the Christian vote who really would not mind adding blasphemy laws and turning the US into a Christian Taliban.

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.

Nasir Saeed, Director of CLAAS - UK has accused Pakistan's blasphemy law of increasingly oppressing religious minorities.

We who would identify with Timothy must choose Paul's way of law and reject the way of meaningless talk and blasphemy.

This week, Asia Bibi, a 45 - year - old mother of five from the Punjab Province, became the first woman ever sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law.

In November Asia Bibi, a 45 - year - old Christian mother of five, became the first woman ever sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law.

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.

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.