Tuesday 03 December 2013 DutchNews.nl
Blasphemy will be removed from the statute books following a majority vote in the upper house of parliament on Tuesday.
However, a second motion was voted through which allows for another law to be found which can be adjusted to protect people from serious insult to their religion, the Nos reports.
Last week, the coalition partners Labour and Liberal VVD said they had doubts about plans to scrap the blasphemy law. During last week’s debate in the upper house of parliament, Labour senator Nico Schrijver questioned whether scrapping the blasphemy laws would offer minorities sufficient protection against their religious sensibilities being hurt.
And VVD senator Heleen Depuis said if Christians feel threatened by blasphemy then you can reason that their freedom of religion is being compromised and the legislation should stay.
The coalition government has recently agreed to work together more closely with the minor religious parties ChristenUnie and SGP to ensure majority support for its economic policies. Both parties are strongly opposed to ending the ban on blasphemy.
Blasphemy has been on the statute books since 1932.
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European Convention of Human Rights
I think many of the exceptions for freedom of speech are tackled in the Article 10 of European Convention of Human Rights.
This Article provides the right to freedom of expression, subject to certain restrictions that are “in accordance with law” and “necessary in a democratic society”. This right includes the freedom to hold opinions, and to receive and impart information and ideas, but allows restrictions for:
We would certainly need the best legal minds humanity can offer to give concrete and legalistic details of the above exceptions that may be acceptable to people of all faiths, ethnicities and nationalities.
If the Supreme Court Justices do not come to our rescue, may be a good and an accomplished writer can help out with a best selling book. But, the key is to at least, win the moderates, in all the established religions of the world and among the agnostics and atheists.
The bad example is Mr.Mursi of Egypt. He did not give to every one what they wanted. So he lost all of it. The rights of all shold be protected. I do not say, what has happened in Egypt is good for any one. Military form of government is not seen in any developed country.
The laws in contries should be liberal with few controls.
ALL NATIONS IN DEW COURSE WILL BE DESTROYED NONE BY BUT LOCALS CONVERT TO ISLAM, WHO ARE YOUR CITIZEN BUT BOW TO SAUDI LAND ,READ THEIR BOOK WHICH TOTALLY TEACHES THEM TO HATE ALL OTHERS WHO ARE NOT LIKE YOU. JUST WATCH AND SEE INDIA HAS LOST IS 500 MILLIONS HINDUS TO ISLAM AND BIG LAND TO CONVERTS WHO ARE USED BY SAUDI TO GO OUT AND DESTROY OTHER NATIONS NOW.
TREAT THESE CONVERTS AS NON CITIZEN AS THEY ARE NEVER LOYAL TO YOUR LAWS AND LAND..
Pakistan must hasten to follow suit and scrape their Blasphemy Law from their Constitution
Here in US Ahmadi Muslims must use all their political contact to mount pressure on Nawaz Sharif to bring immediate changes in constitution.