So this is depressing.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/medi...n-Muslims.html
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/20...blasphemy-laws
Quote:
Keith Vaz MP, the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, told Al Arabiya News that he would have “no problem” with blasphemy laws being reintroduced, under certain conditions.
“It should apply to all religions. If we have laws, they should apply to everybody. Religions are very special to people. And therefore I have no objection to them… but it must apply equally to everybody.”
Asked whether he thought there should be a blasphemy laws he said “no”, but added: “If somebody brings it forward in parliament I’ll vote for it… Obviously it depends what’s in the bill. But I have no objection to it being brought before parliament and having a debate about it.”
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Keith appears to have been taking lessons in equivocation from Jeremy Corbyn. He has no objection to blasphemy laws but thinks there shouldn't be any. If you've no objection, Keith, and would vote for it then you obviously
do think they should be on the statute books, you're just playing politics in such a ridiculously transparent way I find it insulting to my intelligence.
The Labour Party appears to be in a headlong rush towards even greater depths of illiberalism.
With this, the advent of ever-encroaching political correctness, and perhaps most notably the phenomenon of Jeremy Corbyn, the question can legitimately be asked:
what happened to left-wing libertarianism?
On that note back to my
safe space.