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Brazil: a law against religious satire?
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Public mockery towards religions could be prohibited in Rio de Janeiro, under a bill to be submitted to the vote of local MPs Wednesday and which provides for fines of up to 77,000 dollars.
Bill, on the initiative of Fabio Silva evangelical MP wants to ban all the way publicly "ridicule and / or any other form of mockery or contempt of the dogmas and beliefs of any religion." The text, which points to the representations "erotic" of religion, would be applied at any public event, such as political or cultural carnival, with fines of up to 270,000 reais, or about 70,000 euros.
Opponents of the law believe unconstitutional and claim it would only exacerbate religious intolerance. "It is not for us to censor cultural events beforehand. This violates freedom of expression ", said to the press Vizeu Leonardo, head of the College of Law of the Brazilian Bar Association. MP Silva retorted that he does not seek to restrict the "free expression of opinion or thought." Silva also compares Brazil to France, highlighting the attacks against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January after the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that Muslims deemed blasphemous.
Silva argued that "this insult to the faith of a people motivated this absurdity that was the death of 12 people." "Brazil is a peaceful country, but we can not allow the lack of respect (to religion) increases in our country," he says. If the bill passed, opponents are betting that it would quickly retoqué by the Supreme Court of Brazil.
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Bill, on the initiative of Fabio Silva evangelical MP wants to ban all the way publicly "ridicule and / or any other form of mockery or contempt of the dogmas and beliefs of any religion." The text, which points to the representations "erotic" of religion, would be applied at any public event, such as political or cultural carnival, with fines of up to 270,000 reais, or about 70,000 euros.
Opponents of the law believe unconstitutional and claim it would only exacerbate religious intolerance. "It is not for us to censor cultural events beforehand. This violates freedom of expression ", said to the press Vizeu Leonardo, head of the College of Law of the Brazilian Bar Association. MP Silva retorted that he does not seek to restrict the "free expression of opinion or thought." Silva also compares Brazil to France, highlighting the attacks against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January after the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that Muslims deemed blasphemous.
Silva argued that "this insult to the faith of a people motivated this absurdity that was the death of 12 people." "Brazil is a peaceful country, but we can not allow the lack of respect (to religion) increases in our country," he says. If the bill passed, opponents are betting that it would quickly retoqué by the Supreme Court of Brazil.
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I just watched the movie Agora, with Amenábar (2009), in which the antagonist is the Patriarch of Alexandria Cyril. And well he and his fanatics proclaimed themselves Christians but have a funny echo Daeshien ...
There would be less religious (and why not more true spirituality), the better the world would be ...
How do you say "mind Charlie" in Portuguese?
Religions have a detrimental effect on all mankind ...
Well, after all, Brazil is a former Portuguese colony. The obscurantism and religious wars that knows them.
Vive Christianophobia
Well yes, it seems that Islamophobia is to have the right to criticize Islam!On 08.19.2015 on 22:26- Long live secularism!
Given their essort particularly in Africa and in South America I would not be surprised if in the medium term the evangelists take the baton in Islamist violence.
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