European experts criticise Denmark for taking interventions against religious extremism one step too far, reports Kristeligt Dagblad.
Danish Parliament on Monday adopted the last part of the anti-extremism package, the so-called ‘forkynderlov’, which includes a public sanction list of religious preachers.
According to Ingvill Thorson Plesner, a human rights researcher at University of Olso, and Peter Edge, a professor of law at Oxford Brookes University, the new law is in conflict with religious freedom.
I can’t actually tell if the law is in conflict with established views of ‘religious freedom,’ but this something to watch out for. On the other hand, I had to blog about this because the law is actually called ‘forkynderlov.’
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On the one hand, the state has an interest in preventing incitement against the civilization it represents, on the other, does one ever trust the state apply a standard which can only be subjective in order to limit the expression of an escential right?
Personally I don’t trust the state to reasonably enforce such things and think that knowing that people are screaming about burning down cities is itself valuable. A conspiracy can only happen behind closed doors.
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Shorter onwyrdsdream: “Personally I don’t trust the state…” Don’t. Ever.
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