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Thread #85608   Message #1589626
Posted By: Wolfgang
24-Oct-05 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: T-Shirt/Censorship/Religious hatred
Subject: RE: BS: T-Shirt/Censorship/Religious hatred
In Germany, it would be a question of the context.

As a cartoon accompanying an article critical of a faith it would be considered as free speech.
Someone wearing the T-shirt at a concert of the band would be considered free speech.
Someone wearing the T-shirt walking down just any street would probably still considered using his right of free speech.

Someone wearing that T-shirt ostentatively during a Christian religious procession or in a church would probably be sentenced.
Someone walking with that T-shirt in Bunnahabhain's version down a street with nearly exclusively Muslim neighbourhood would be sentenced for inciting religous hatred.

Wolfgang