Section 295(A) IPC - Blashphemy law

confuzzled dude wrote:Section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) enacted in 1927[4] says:[5]

   Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any [url=#]class[/url] of [citizens of India], [by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise], insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to [three years], or with fine, or with both.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India#Section_295.28A.29

Kris wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:Section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) enacted in 1927[4] says:[5]

   Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any [url=#]class[/url] of [citizens of India], [by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise], insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to [three years], or with fine, or with both.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India#Section_295.28A.29

"book, Rangila Rasul was published in 1927 by Rajpal. The book concerned the marriages and sex life of Prophet Muhammad. On the basis of Muslim complaint, Publisher was arrested but acquitted in April 1929 because there was no law against insult to religion. Publisher was murdered in Court. "

>>>Why waste time on legal niceties?

Hellsangel wrote:
Comrade is desperately trying to establish a moral equivalence. Hey if you call Islamic terrorists bad, you infidel lot are many times worse.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:
Comrade is desperately trying to establish a moral equivalence. Hey if you call Islamic terrorists bad, you infidel lot are many times worse.

Twisteran, if that was the intent, I'd have brought up Germany and a host of other countries.

Hellsangel wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:
Comrade is desperately trying to establish a moral equivalence. Hey if you call Islamic terrorists bad, you infidel lot are many times worse.

Twisteran, if that was the intent, I'd have brought up Germany and a host of other countries.

What about Germany, Comrade?

Hellsangel wrote:

Kris wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:Section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) enacted in 1927[4] says:[5]

   Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any [url=#]class[/url] of [citizens of India], [by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise], insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to [three years], or with fine, or with both.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India#Section_295.28A.29

"book, Rangila Rasul was published in 1927 by Rajpal. The book concerned the marriages and sex life of Prophet Muhammad. On the basis of Muslim complaint, Publisher was arrested but acquitted in April 1929 because there was no law against insult to religion. Publisher was murdered in Court. "

>>>Why waste time on legal niceties?

Comrade is desperately trying to establish a moral equivalence. Hey if you call Islamic terrorists bad, you infidel lot are many times worse.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:
Comrade is desperately trying to establish a moral equivalence. Hey if you call Islamic terrorists bad, you infidel lot are many times worse.

Twisteran, if that was the intent, I'd have brought up Germany and a host of other countries.

What about Germany, Comrade?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/which-countries-still-outlaw-apostasy-and-blasphemy/

Hellsangel wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:
Comrade is desperately trying to establish a moral equivalence. Hey if you call Islamic terrorists bad, you infidel lot are many times worse.

Twisteran, if that was the intent, I'd have brought up Germany and a host of other countries.

What about Germany, Comrade?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/which-countries-still-outlaw-apostasy-and-blasphemy/

The article itself does not mention Germany. But here is what a comment says:It is federal law, i.e. it concerns the whole country. But it is slightly different from the laws in other countries – and has a very different origin. The paragraph is called “Defamation of religious denominations, religious societies and World view associations” and was set up mainly in order to protect (religious) minorities from being attacked (obviously with the – at that time – recent prosecution of Jews in mind).

Hellsangel wrote:

So Comrade, you want to use this for equivalence?

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:

So Comrade, you want to use this for equivalence?

Must be a figment of your imagination. I was surprised that India has such laws.