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skepticscott

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Tue Apr 2, 2013, 02:50 PM
Apr 2013

“They have hurt the religious feelings of the people by writing against different religions and their prophets and founders including the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh),” said deputy commissioner of Dhaka police, Molla Nazrul Islam. Do you have a better justification for it than someone directly involved?

Call it hurt feelings, call it offense, call it whatever. When you boil it down, that's all blasphemy laws are about. And blasphemy laws go much further than simply parading people through the streets, as do the sentiments of religious people who have had their feewings hurt (as attested to in the very article you quoted)

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