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The law isn't against blasphemy, it's against offending religious sentiments and is deliberately vague. You'd have to prove that the group claiming to be offend
by avemuri 12y ago
The law isn't against blasphemy, it's against offending religious sentiments and is deliberately vague. You'd have to prove that the group claiming to be offended is not offended.
Stupid, but India has a long history of religious violence, so perhaps its a case of pragmatism over principle as a justification.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoThere are efforts at an international level to stifle religious expression as well. This is championed by Islamic states to prevent any criticism of Islam. This is a growing global threat to freedom of expression and it often finds its way into online censorship.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoEven better. I just need to be religiously offended by the very idea that mocking other people's gods could be religiously offensive, given they are obviously not gods and therefore incapable of inciting offense according to my faith (any suggestion otherwise being clearly very offensive), so then any charge of religious offense is then automatically religiously offensive to me.