Saudi Arabia: Free Expression Is An Abuse Of Religious Rights

[Webster]

....who died and put the Saudi mullahs in charge?

(National Secular Society) Saudi Arabia has reiterated its call for a global blasphemy law, claiming that free speech leads to violations of "religious and ideological rights."

Abdulmajeed Al-Omari, the director for external relations at the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, a government body which is tasked with "propagating Islam", was quoted by the Saudi Gazette as saying, "freedom of expression without limits or restrictions would lead to [the] violation and abuse of religious and ideological rights." He called for insulting religion to be criminalised, and urged for an 'intensification' of efforts aimed at stamping out affronts to religious symbols.

In what amounts to a call for a global law against blasphemy or 'defamation of religion', Al-Omari added that "everyone" must "intensify efforts to criminalise insulting heavenly religions, prophets, holy books, religious symbols and places of worship."

The Saudi Gazette reports that Al-Omari claimed the 'abuse' of free speech created religious extremism and, bizarrely, violations of human rights. The paper added that the Saudi government had "reiterated its call" for the international community to make illegal "any act" which 'vilified' religious beliefs.

The comments, reported in Saudi Arabia last week, come less than two months after the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) warned the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) against a renewed push for a global prohibition on insulting religion.

The FIDH wrote shortly before an OIC conference held in June 2015 that any such law would be "incompatible" with human rights.

In February 2015, Keith Porteous Wood, the executive director of the National Secular Society, noted at a meeting of the European Parliament Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP) in Brussels, that the OIC had been involved in a "15 year project" to have defamation of religion criminalised globally.

He commented on the most recent developments from the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs; "Whether imposed through bullets or diplomatic bullying, blasphemy laws must never be tolerated. These schemes are increasingly repackaged as 'defamation of religion' laws, but they are one and the same: the idea that religion should be protected by law from criticism or satire.

"We again see the cynical and brazenly hypocritical use of human rights language and terminology to push a theocratic and Islamist agenda, with ambitions that it is enforced not just in Saudi Arabia, but across the world."

The Saudi king recently left a holiday in France ahead of schedule, after reports that female French police officers were removed from the area around the villa where he had been staying in order to protect his 'privacy'.

....all I can say here is....

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

And this is why that religion will never be compatible with any part of Western Civilization and multiculturalism is one huge danger.

 

[beowulf]

my answer

,...................go fuck yourself.....and thats ALL religions

 

[DrLeftover]

....who died and put the Saudi mullahs in charge?

The Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him)

At least, that's if you ask the Saudis.

 

[DrLeftover]

Several years ago, at the request of a friend, I took a look at the US Bill of Rights under the light of Islamic Law.

The lady that asked the question, who had friends that had converted and were now all about Islam, was not happy with the result.

But, as yet, NOBODY has been able to show me where my conclusions were wrong, only that perhaps I had overstated an issue or two.

"What Rights, under the US Bill Of Rights,
would you have under Sharia Law?"

(NOTE: no disrespect of any religious or legal system is intended, this is solely a review of the matter as objectively as possible by the Desk, in the Desk's style, and solely within the confines of the question. All judgments of the matter are left to the reader. We will not discuss which of these Rights the current US Government is ignoring the most, although the Desk would begin its argument with the Tenth.
the Desk did not point out that to say 'Sharia Law' is a redundancy, no, it skipped that. thank you)

The first answer was that "she" would have almost None. No, she wouldn't, not in any sense that she was used to living in the USA, and never mind that she was a Christian, we'll explain as we go. Other people, may have a few more, unless they were slaves. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.

The next answer is that the American concept, and indeed, the Western concept, of 'personal rights' is essentially alien to those that live under Islamic rule.

http://themediadesk.com/files8/rights.htm

 

[MrDawn]

I think people who use religion to oppress other people's freedom is lame.

A good example is ISIS.

Follow these religious laws or go to hell....and oh...by the way, Allah says if you don't do it. I get to chop your head off, film it, and send it over to America as a threat that they're next.

 

[Webster]

The Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him)

At least, that's if you ask the Saudis.

Yeah, well they can burn in the fiery pit of Dante's Hell for all I care...along with their precious holy book:

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I think people who use religion to oppress other people's freedom is lame.

A good example is ISIS.

Follow these religious laws or go to hell....and oh...by the way, Allah says if you don't do it. I get to chop your head off, film it, and send it over to America as a threat that they're next.

A good example would be 90 percent of the middle east.

 

[DrLeftover]

And it is NOT just in The Kingdom or the Caliphate.

8 Aug

DHAKA (Reuters) - Attackers armed with machetes killed a blogger in Bangladesh on Friday, the fourth such killing of an online critic of religious extremism in six months, prompting calls by human rights groups for a swift and thorough investigation.

Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, while the government has tried to crack down on hardline Islamist groups seeking to make the majority-Muslim South Asian nation of 160 million people a sharia-based state.

Niloy Chatterjee, 40, an advocate of secularism, was killed in his flat in the capital Dhaka, said police official Mustafizur Rahman.

"We are speechless. He was demanding justice for the killing of other bloggers," said Imran Sarker, head of a network of activists and bloggers.

"Who will be next for demanding justice for Niloy?"

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogger-hacked-death-bangladesh-fourth-103750720.html

 

[Webster]

*dusts off thread* Well, the Saudis are still at it....

Saudi Arabia Human Rights Violations: Freedom of Religion and Speech – UAB Institute for Human Rights Blog

sites.uab.edu

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*dusts off thread* Well, the Saudis are still at it....

Saudi Arabia Human Rights Violations: Freedom of Religion and Speech – UAB Institute for Human Rights Blog

sites.uab.edu

I did have hopes when this Saudi leader was giving more rights to women when he took power

 

[Webster]

I did have hopes when this Saudi leader was giving more rights to women when he took power

Was that before or after his Bonesaw treatment of Khashoggi?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Was that before or after his Bonesaw treatment of Khashoggi?

Before 😂

 

[MrDawn]

A good example would be 90 percent of the middle east.

They don't realize their religion does more harm than good. They would be better off without it. It's made them all into fucking savages.