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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.
I was unaware that you can be criminally prosecuted in france for "inciting racism".
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I do not know if they have special laws for that in France, this charge as well as the others I loosely mentioned are basing on new EU-legislation - you can be charged in every country of the EU for that, not just France. However, in Germany we also still have a socalled blasphemy paragraph. It existed since 1872 and was revamped in 1969. It means that
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a penalty of up to three years in prison or a fine can be handed down to anyone who "publically, or via the dissemination of writings, slanders the religious confession of another person" - if and only if this is done in a way that "is meant to disturb the peace."
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10 people were punished since 1969 by basing on this §166. Many more were tried. Catholic church is heavily lobbying to get the condition of "disturbing the public peace" removed and turn the law into a very dangerous club to silence critics of the Catholic church. They have support in almost all parties in parliament, surprisingly - or not - especially amongst the Green (enforcing multi-culti and banning criticism of foreign rites, cultures and ideologies goes hand in hand, doesn't it).
The EU legislation formally does not base on charges being risen against you over "hate speech", but by equaling criticism of religion with "
discrimination" and charging you over that instead. This makes it very handy for Muslim activists.
Christians or Jews or Buddhists or Hindus and other religious clubs so far have not used this law to silence their critics, as far as I know. It's always Muslims, apparently. The law was designed after serious pressure and lobbying by Saudi Arabia and Turkey. As is known, comparable laws
that even go further are tried to be boxed through at the UN by the Muslim block there.