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In reply to the discussion: At U.N., free speech divides West and Muslim nations [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)"international legal regulations against attacks on what people deem sacred."
Does this mean that Saudi Arabia and certain other Muslim countries will allow Christian Bibles to be given out without attacking those who give them away?
Does this mean that Muslims will treat the Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, etc. religions with the same respect that they treat their own?
Attacks on what people deem sacred.
I remember hearing of Muslim attacks on Jewish and Christian people and their places of worship in the Middle East. Egypt I believe, but also elsewhere.
It is very easy to object to jokes about your own religion and about discrimination against your own religion, but tolerance and fairness require refraining from jokes and discrimination against other religions.
When Egyptians and Saudi Arabians and other Muslim countries and their people respect the right of Muslims to convert to Christianity as we in the US respect the right of Christians or people of other religions to convert to the Muslim religion, then, maybe we can have a discussion about what an attack on another's religion means.
Tolerance is the key.
And I favor complete freedom of religion. No government should enforce any law protecting or prohibiting religious expression. That is what I would like to see.