Talk:Defamation of religion
I'm not familiar with the specifics of how the UN handles this, but I'm assuming it reversed positions to a great extent recently. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 04:15, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Why the issue of Defamation of Religion may be relevant.
I'm putting this on the talk page because I do not want to be seen as vandalizing this page but I think this page has got this issue mostly (but not entirely) wrong. The use of the word defamation when it came to religion was originally used to counter antisemitism (see Anti-Defamation League). It differs from the concept of blasphemy in that blasphemy refers to any theological narrative that runs counter to one's theological narrative. Blasphemy can refer to defamation but is not necessarily defamation. The defamation of a religion is to misrepresent the beliefs or rituals of a religion in order to discredit the religion (ie: Blood libel). Is there potential for the abuse of the term in order to silence other points of view? Absolutely. However, the defamation of a religion is often a tool of persecution of religious groups, particularly when religion is associated (implicitly or explicitly) with race. To deny the existence of the defamation of religion is to deny the existence of religious persecution and thus Denying the victim. Nchriste (talk) 00:11, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
- Good points. I suggest editing the article accordingly. Wẽãšẽĩõĩď
Methinks it is a Weasel 00:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)