El Arzobispo de Canterbury: en su línea

De Winds Of Jihad:

"The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called for new laws to protect religious sensibilities that would punish “thoughtless and cruel” styles of speaking.

Dr Williams, who has seen his own Anglican Communion riven by fierce invective over homosexuality, said the current blasphemy law was “unworkable” and he had no objection to its repeal.

But whatever replaces it should “send a signal” about what was acceptable.

This should be done by “stigmatising and punishing extreme behaviours” that have the effect of silencing argument.

The Archbishop, delivering the James Callaghan Memorial Lecture in London this afternoon, said it should not just be a few forms of extreme behaviour that were deemed unacceptable, leaving everything else as fair game.

“The legal provision should keep before our eyes the general risks of debasing public controversy by thoughtless and, even if unintentionally, cruel styles of speaking and acting,” he said."

Hmm, yeah, how about Spanish Inquisition and Torquemada, for example? I really believe that if some of this people would have been those so critisized for centuries, they would have committed a genocide...

My goodness. And how about punishing thoughless people speaking stupid things once and again?

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El Arzobispo de Canterbury ha pedido que se aprueben nuevas leyes para proteger a las religiones de "modos de hablar que no se han pensado o crueles". Dice que la "actual ley sobre la blasfemia no sirve para nada y que no tiene ninguna objección a que se cambiase". En cuanto a cómo debía modificarse la Ley, dice que "se debería estigmatizar y castigar comportamientos extremos", que producirían el silencio del interesado, porque "hay que mandar una señal de lo que es acceptable".

Anteriores sobre el Arzobispo:
El Arzobispo de Canterbury: Dhimmitud en su grado máximo. Qué diferencia con Nazir-Ali, ¿eh?

Sobre Canterbury:
Un concejal de Canterbury (LibDem) quiere prohibir a los franceses la entrada en la ciudad. ¿Y las personas con doble nacionalidad? Debe ser la ciudad... lo que hace decir tantas tonterías...

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