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2005-01-09 Britain

Shattered Glass, Battered Freedom [Britain's "incitement to religious hatred" law meets reality]

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Posted by Zenster 2005-01-09 2:51:20 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

"I suppose now wouldnât be the right time to bring up the "Jerry Springer Opera."

If you hadn't, I was ready to.

It's always OK to piss off the Christians, since they've got a thing called Christian charity... Plus they're not a "protected group."

Posted by Old Grouch 2005-01-09 5:02:59 PM|| 2005-01-09 5:02:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Complete, utter horseshit. Of course anyone in Britain can, and does, and will, say the most offensive, vile and nasty things about jews and evangelicals. When that Oxford idiotarian poet is sentenced for expressing his wish to slaughter "Zionist" settlers, we'll know this law is more than just a slimy, bad-faith effort at appeasing jihadists and nonwhite religious types.

Posted by lex 2005-01-09 5:32:01 PM|| 2005-01-09 5:32:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The upshot: Score one for yahooism, zero for law. Reluctantly, the Birmingham Rep canceled the run, for neither the theater nor the police could guarantee the safety of audience and staff.

I wonder, has Adnan Pachachi been following this? Seems he's going down the same appeasement route.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-09 6:49:07 PM|| 2005-01-09 6:49:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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