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March 14, 2006

Turkey's foreign minister asks the EU for blasphemy laws to protect Islam

Topics: Understanding Islam

Deep divisions continue to emerge among European Union governments over suggestions that they should alter their blasphemy laws to protect Islam. As usual, Islamic apologists and appeasers do so under the utterly false premise that Europes laws protect Christianity and Judism from being mocked and criticized:

Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minister, sparked disagreement among his EU counterparts at a weekend meeting in Austria, when he called for European nations to review existing laws, to ensure they outlawed the "defamation" of all religions.

Mr Gul told a meeting of EU and Balkan foreign ministers in Salzburg that many Muslims believed that European laws amounted to a double-standard, protecting established Christian religions, and banning anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, while doing nothing to defend Muslims who felt offended.

He said several European nations already maintained laws against religious defamation. "However, these restraints sometimes only apply to the established religions of the concerned countries. I would like to call on you here to start a process of re-examination of your legislations to ensure that these restraints apply to all religions equally."

Turkey's continued stance for special treatment for Muslims isn't helping their chances of membership into the EU, and at this point, one would have to say that their chances are not good at all.

Posted by Richard at March 14, 2006 10:30 AM

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