GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning "defamation of religion" as a human rights violation, despite wide concerns that it could be used to justify curbs on free speech in Muslim countries.
Okay, so it's a non-binding resolution, but a resolution by the Human Rights Council nonetheless.
I'd write a longer blog post, but can't really be bothered. As blasphemy is already illegal in Finland, there's no way this can possibly affect us.
I wonder when we Europeans, collectively, will realize that we're slowly giving up most of the defining freedoms that make us a free society. In Finland we're already not allowed to criticize the police too strongly, say mean things about religions or say something that a prosecutor can interpret as being racist. Our Internet traffic is monitored by the Swedish army and soon by our employees.
There is a sustained assault on our basic freedoms going on, and no-one really cares.
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