Archive for blasphemy law
“the Islamic Republic’s war against its own people”
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics with tags blasphemy law, death penalty, ECPM, executions, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Human Rights, Islamic Republic of Iran, repression, theocracy, Together against the death penalty, World Coalition against the death penalty on April 12, 2025 by xi'an
international celebration of blasphemy [jatp]
Posted in Books, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 2024 Venice Bienale, Bienale, blasphemy law, Dutch pavilion, ISBA 2024, jatp, Venezia, Venezia Gheto, Venice on July 12, 2024 by xi'an
news from the theocrazy [Uwolnić Elę]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags blasphemy law, conservatism, Czestochowa, Elżbieta Podlesna, end blasphemy laws, EU, iconoclasts, Jasna Góra, Justice and Order party, LGBT rights, Poland, religious beliefs on May 11, 2019 by xi'an
freedom to discriminate???
Posted in Statistics with tags Australia, blasphemy law, democracy index, discrimination, LGBT rights, Manif pour tous, religious freedom on November 18, 2018 by xi'an“Gay students and teachers could be rejected by religious schools under changes to anti-discrimination laws being recommended by a federal review into religious freedom.” The Guardian, 9 Oct. 2018
The quote is not speaking of one of the 72 countries in the World where homosexuality is considered a crime (with 13 states applying the death penalty), but of Australia, ranked 8th on the Economist 2017 Democracy Index, where religious freedom arguments are legally recognised as a right to discriminate against homosexual students and staff. (As an aside, Australia still has a blasphemy law.)
“While the panel accepted the right of religious school to discriminate against students on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation, it could see no justification for a school to discriminate on the basis of race, disability, pregnancy or intersex status.” The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Oct. 2018
I find it flabbergasting that such newspeak inversions (also found in the French “Manif pour tous” slogans turning égalité into a discrimination argument against homosexual weddings and adoptions) can find their way into a legislative text. And more generally that religions can still continue to promote gender discrimination with no consequences.
