French Muslims are taking satirical paper Charlie Hebdo to court for blasphemy over a front page insulting the Koran. In a separate case, a right-wing MP is being sued for accusing young Muslims of anti-Semitism.
A court in Strasbourg on Monday set the hearing into Charlie Hebdo’s alleged blasphemy for 7 April.
The paper’s premises were firebombed in 2011 after it published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
A Muslim legal defence group brought the case over a front page headlined “The Koran is shit”.
Blasphemy is not an offence in France, apart from in Alsace-Moselle, three French departments which were annexed by Germany in 1871 and 1940-45 and kept part of the old German legal code when they returned to France.
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments:
The Muslim Times and Alislam-eGazette have had several publications on the issue of freedom of speech versus license to abuse, in recent weeks and some of those are linked here:
A Critique of President Obama’s UN Speech
Challenging Wilders: The Pen indeed and not the Axe!
October 2012 Alislam-eGazette: Freedom of Speech or License to Abuse?
Categories: Europe, Free speach, Free Speech, Freedom, Islam
Can Christians sue Ahmadis for openly and publically claiming that Jesus (only begotten son of their God) is dead? Surely from their perspective it is a great sin and something which hurts their feelings.
There is no harm in saying that Jesus is dead because the church has admitted the death of Jesus upon the cross. If God can die once, he can die again.
But it is no good saying anything to hurt the Christians even though they do it every time to malign our beloved prophet Muhammad by means of bad words and cartoons.
We can leave the matter of life and death of Jesus to the Christians. They can do what they like with that.
Christ’s death is the base of christian’s faith. So, we both agree on his death.The only difference is that,Ahmadis say that he didn’t die for their sins, rather he died a natural death like other human beings.