The European Union has given up on free speech, and made it a crime to criticize Islam. Is it a crime to criticize Christianity? Of course not.https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/117135/persecution-elisabeth-sabaditsch-wolff-jamie-glazov#.W9R_rg6XjKU.twitter …
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You don't. 1. Every country has signed the ECHR anyway, so Lisbon has nothing to do with it. 2. This creates or changes no rule for signatory states to follow. The court decided not to interfere with a particular court ruling in a member state, as it has before.
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Let me repeat: no general rule was created. The "blasphemy law" is a national one, is religiously neutral, has been on the books for decades. The court decided, as it did in 1994, not to strike it down. This has no influence on what any other country does.
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so what does the echr do, is it just a means of appeasement for outrage groups or does it actually step in to defend human rights?
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in either case it doesn't look that great, on one hand you have an apathetic government that has no voting ties to it's population, on the other you have tier'd human rights designed to make some groups more equal than others
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Criticize all you want but get the facts straight. This doesn't make one group more equal, it applies a neutral rule equally. The same national law has been used to "protect" other religious groups, esp. Catholics, before.
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There's all kinds of reasons why you can criticise a law that makes it illegal to insult religion. However, you can't say that this applies only to Islam, or that it's anything new because it doesn't and it isn't.
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this is not true-- retraction?https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1056365212087939072 …
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They're not even judges
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Do people in Britain still really want to stay in this dictatorial sharia bound mess known as the EU?
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No, it's more complicated than that although it is an appalling ruling. Becoming a legal obligation, entering into force - all meaningless European law gobbledygook. The EU itself has not yet acceded to the ECHR.
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You understand correctly.
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EConHR forms part of the legal hinterland, the acquis communitaire, which all present an future MS are obliged to accept.
@Vermeullarmine can explain this more fully.
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