Salon.com > Blasphemy http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Will blasphemy be criminalized? http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/will_blasphemy_be_criminalized/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/will_blasphemy_be_criminalized/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:22:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13020438 The long-standing United Nations debate over free speech and its limitations will take particular precedence this week in light of the recent global reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube clip.

A number of Muslim leaders, including Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, will argue this week that blasphemy should (in some way) be criminalized under international law. Meanwhile, the majority of Western leaders will continue to push back against such an idea, arguing (as they have for some years) that such blasphemy laws could be used to punish, imprison or even execute dissidents under certain regimes.

According to a McClatchy Newspapers report:

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