Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Atheism forbidden in a Muslim country
An Indonesian man was jailed for 30 months after writing "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page. Alexander Aan, 30, was imprisoned on Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed online.
He started an atheist group on Facebook on which he shared comic strips of the prophet having sex with his servant, a court in western Sumatra heard today.
He was found guilty of 'deliberately spreading information inciting religious hatred and animosity', presiding judge Eka Prasetya Budi Dharma told the Muaro Sijunjung district court in western Sumatra.
Aan also uploaded three articles on his Facebook account, including one describing the prophet being attracted to his daughter-in-law.
'Under the Electronic Information and Transactions law, we sentence him to prison for a length of two years and six months,' Dharma said.
'What he did has caused anxiety to the community and tarnished Islam.'
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"What he did has caused anxiety to the community and tarnished Islam."
Yet blowing people up in the name of Islam is OK.
What a f*cked up world we live in.
They dont ant of need a ACLU And we dont want the ACLU either
What he did has caused anxiety to the community and tarnished Islam.
Seems to me that what has tarnished Islam is Islam and Mohammad.
What it shows is what religious control of society (theocracy) results in. Christianity for centuries had the same dogmatic effect and much worse, until more enlightened secularists made some headway in Europe and America, so now Christianity is somewhat more tamed. Unfortunately the theists are making some comeback in the West where even so-called Christians are bacing up the Muslims against "atheist" thinking.
Since SCOTUS justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, (she's the one who closely resembles a rodent) stated that we should adopt foriegn laws in the US, can't we get this law put into place here?
As usual, religion wrecks everything.
tarnished islam????? is that what i read? are you kidding me????
3:22,
Are you claiming that guys like Martin Luther and, before him, John Wycliffe translating the Bible into common languages (German and English respectively) and the resulting Reformation had absolutely nothing to do with a return to Biblical Christianity?
Will they issue fatwas on RICHARD DAWKINS? becuase Chris Hitchens is already dead
His profound ignorance is as astounding as those who might presume to know and write that "God Does Exist".....
Telling us that God does not exist is supreme ASSumption.
Anon11:51- Give some proof that god exists. Until then, STFU
as in the court of law, witness testimony is evidence worthy of a jury. FACT. pwnage.
Luke : the then official Christian Church (with Apostolic Succession to back it up) actually killed and tortured people who tried to translate the Bible into local languages like 'English' - so what is your point!?
3:47 PM Christian Bibles are not allowed in Saudi Arabia and Christians have been called mocking Islam by their activities - so what's your point apart from obvious atheist-phobia (or a-atheism?
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