The Spanish national court acted so fast to ban a Spanish weekly magazine called "El Jueves" because it published a cartoon depicted the heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, having sex with his wife and quickly removed that edition of the magazine from every news stand in the country with a temporarily shut down of the website of the magazine ,the cartoonists who made that cartoon are currently standing in trial and if they are found to be guilty ,they will have to pay 5000$ fine each
I am sorry but I do not understand here; is not this an assault on the freedom of expression in Spain and in Europe !!?? are not these cartoons protected by the laws and EU ??
It is so strange because the courts and laws of the EU do not act like this when the European Cartoons make of fun of our Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" every now and then once in Denmark and once in Sweden !!
I mean why there is a discrimination in treating religious holy figure,it is ok by the law to make fun from holy figures but it is not ok not to make fun from royals in a constitution monarchy country !!
Yes I know laws are different from a country to another , but the principal itself exists and they are all European countries which during the Danish Cartoon kept preaching us on the freedom of expression to the end of that talk when they have their laws against anyone who makes fun of their monarchs !!?? I mean it is okay to make fun from religious symbols but it is not okay to make fun from the rulers !!??
Freedom of speech is exactly that, the right to express yourself about anything freely, without censorship. The limits are threats or something totally against the private persons, not public persons like politicians, monarchs, gods, prophets, etc. The Muslim world unfortunately is still inthe middle ages regarding free speech and the right to express oneself regarding religious things. In Spain the political party Action For Justice (AXJ) is fighting to defend free speech in Spain and Europe similar as it exists in the USA.
ReplyDeleteDiscrimination, you recently found out that, don't make me laugh!!
ReplyDeletehowever, there is some thing more powerful that discrimination and CAN override rules, silence tongues & force respect
it is called Power & Influence
take example:
China forced Google to remove many articles of chinese opposition from Emails, Blogs & even private FTPs hosted on google servers....otherwise, you are banned of china market
Yes, in defiance to every fucken freedom of speech act in USA...
muslems are nothing but pathetic rugged gangs of anarchists, unable to force respect or even gain sympathy
we are utterly foolin ourselves, i really hope we give more attention to our internal troubles rather that (international publicity)
@anonymous ,I believe also Public persons have some privacy and rights , it is not an excuse to slam them rudely in that way , it is not fair
ReplyDeleteby the way before you jump in to the wagan and say the Muslim world against the free speech ,you must put line between insult and free speech , you do not have to believe in what we believe ,but at least respect it
@aardvark,I know there is a discrimination but I was surprised because I remember they said there was on above the freedom of expression in Europe and here it is there is someone who is above the freedom of speech in Spain !!??