Italian charged with defaming Islam

[Boris Godunov]

Don't some European countries *cough*Germany*cough* ban Scientology outright? How does that figure into their supposed right to be free from slander? I could hardly think of something more "slanderous" to a religion than to outlaw it.

[Bereta_Eder]

che is an ignoramous yank lives far away.
you pekka dont know


so dont laught that hard

[Bereta_Eder]

scientology is not classified as a religion but as a sect
(banned in greece as well)

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Pekka
basic dignity? And who defines that? The law of the universal?

something like that
or the law of man

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Pekka
Maybe in Greece. IN here you can't. Fortunately. I mean sure you can try but it would be waste of time, money and your own personal reputation.

Show the laws of those. Even to this date you have failed to deliver the exact laws. We say they don't exist. We are right as long as you can't provide them.

Um.. Pekka. Isn't Finland part of the EU as well as the Council of Europe? Both bodies have said allowing religious hatred is a violation of the principle of dignity found the European Convention of Human Rights and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights (which is non-enforceable, but strongly influences Court of Justice rulings).

It is also a principle enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and I don't believe Finland has filed a reservation on the racial/religious hatred clause.

[Bereta_Eder]

In Greece these laws are far older than those conventions. I know that to be true in other countries as well. I'm very very inclined to think this is also the case in Finland.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That definetly may be true, but I have no idea. With these conventions Pekka cannot deny it has been the law in Finland since then.

[Bereta_Eder]

Yep.
I hope the shock isn't too much

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Jaguar
Kuci is always right.

Ken Banobi

[Pekka]

Well show me the law then. And there's also the interpretation of the law. Even if soem POS relic of PC ***** policy exist, it's not implemented.

I can say waht I want about religions, evil, stupid, bigoted or not. Adn there's nothing you can do about it

Take that to you pedophile catholics and gay muslims