Posted on 07/10/2015 5:02:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Excerpted from Bare Naked Islam: Iceland has abolished its blasphemy law, on the books since the 1940s, after a bill proposed by the Pirate Party passed in the national legislature. According to the Iceland Monitor, all three Pirate Party MPs stood in the Parliament (Althing) during the vote and said “Je suis Charlie,” expressing solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo massacre victims.
IB Times The bill, which passed with one MP voting against and three abstaining, is the first bill by the Pirate Party to pass in the Althing. The party later celebrated the passing with a blog post stating: “The Icelandic Parliament has issued the important message that freedom will not bow to bloody attacks.”
Iceland’s blasphemy law punished offenders with a fine or three months imprisonment. The party first proposed the bill in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The bill faced opposition from numerous groups, including the Pentecostal Church and the Catholic Church of Iceland. “Jyllandsposten and Charlie Hebdo should have thought twice before before publish material insulting Islam,” the eastern province of the Church of Iceland said.
Not all religious groups were opposed, however. The Bishop’s office of the Church of Iceland, commenting on the bill, said: “It is fundamental to a free society that people should be able to express themselves without fear of punishment.” Keep reading
Iceland should beware the wrath of Obama who says the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
Zer0 was speaking of Christians too. Thus, the persecution.
Oh, wait, on second thought..........never mind
Side note - my EVE Online character name is immortalized in the monument there in Reykjavik.
The white population there will now be wiped except for a few slaves. And ISIS now has another base of operations to launch their attacks against America from.
Homina homina homina
I was going to post something...but I forgot.
... the Pirate Party....
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Aaargh!
I guess even Icelanders aren't immune to political correctness
Do those dumb backward skirt wearing bearded ladies called mohammedans, really want to tangle with Vikings??
Think of it .... Asatru, which teaches of Valhalla, where you are in combat by day, back to life and drinking together by night, and do it again, with the next dawn.
vs
skirt wearing, goat affectionate, boy lovers, who can only think of more virgins when they die.
I’ll stand with the Vikings, if they were to look like Ragnar and Lagertha and Rollo.
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