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Blaspheming Against the Blasphemy Law
Gates of Vienna
February 21, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1149/blaspheming-against-the-blasphemy-law
Excerpt:
I recently alluded to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in an attempt to describe the dreamlike insanity of the "hate speech" conviction against the Austrian anti-jihad activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff.
Other literary examples of institutional madness are also appropriate when Islam is the topic of the day. A frequent candidate is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, which is what came to mind when I read this article from Agenzia Fides about the deadly absurdities of Pakistan's blasphemy law:
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