Has Ireland gone even madder?

[xane]

As for the link you posted,

The link I posted was entirely in context, the couple were jailed because someone found their actions offensive, which iterates my point that the issue is letting religion deem what is offensive/insulting, not the law.

 

[tierk]

The link I posted was entirely in context, the couple were jailed because someone found their actions offensive, which iterates my point that the issue is letting religion deem what is offensive/insulting, not the law.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Sorry i disagree the link is irelevant. You want to compare a Muslim country were the laws and people are clearly completely different to the the situation we are discussing.

 

[tierk]

You keep saying he was sentenced under the Public Order Act, I can't find that reference. Link please, because all I can find is that he was given an ASBO and banned from carrying anti-religious material in public.

Type the words taken from The Telegraph article in question "religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress" and you will see a link to wiki which takes you to the relevant law that he has been charged under.

Now irrespective of whether you define an airport as a public place or not (and if in airport isn't public than neither is a railway platform btw, in relation to my earlier comment), if this is saying he's not allowed to display an anti-religious opinion in public, that's a fucked up slippery slope.

I think we both agree that an airport or a train station are both public places, no question about that. However, this guy has been targeting prayer rooms, which are also public areas but quite clearly - as the name implies - a place for people to pray in and I am sorry if you can't understand /see the difference, as it seems pretty clear to me.

I also have no sympathy for any moron that has been charged and found guilty of the same offense previously - amongst others - and has the temerity to continue to insist that he has done nothing wrong and continues to insist that whenever he feels like it he intends to do the same thing again in the future.

 

[Wij]

But religious pricks get off lighter !

One law for Tohseef Shah and another for Harry Taylor | National Secular Society

 

[storch]

I ran across this on another forum, I thought I'd share it here

YouTube- Billy Joe Shaver---If You Don't Love Jesus-Go To Hell

 

[Krazeh]

Oh good, he's managed to escape into other threads.