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Swedish Police Now Permitting Burning of Bible, Torah After Koran Was Torched

In applying for a police permit, a Swedish man claims he wants to protect free speech and argues his act is a response to the Koran burning.

In an inversion of a famous Supreme Court argument, Swedes seem to ignore the dangers of an actual fire in a crowded theater: Like Muslims last month after a Koran burning at Stockholm, world Jews are irate over a Swedish police decision to allow a Saturday protest centered on a burning of sacred scriptures in front of the Israeli embassy at the Swedish capital.

The planned burning of a Torah and a bible at the embassy was included in a request by a Swedish man who in applying for a police permit for his act claimed he wants to protect free speech. In his petition, the man reportedly argued his protest is a response to the burning of Koran in front of a Stockholm mosque on the Muslim holiday of Eid el Fitr.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2023July 14, 2023•0•Freedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Biden Administration Goes After Campus Religious Groups

Do religious groups on public campuses have the right to choose leaders who adhere to their beliefs and behavioral tenets? Should religious campus groups at public institutions enjoy the same rights and accommodations that benefit their secular counterparts?

Common sense and the U.S. Constitution say yes. The Biden administration says no.

by Blazingcatfur•April 30, 2023April 30, 2023•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", freedom of religious expression

The FBI’s Catholic Canard

The bureau withdraws a document warning about ‘radical-traditionalist’ believers.

House Republicans are accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of political bias, and the bureau certainly isn’t helping its own defense. See its retraction of a field-office report lumping some “traditionalist” Catholics with “violent extremists” and calling for government investigation.

A whistleblower last week leaked a January report from the FBI’s Richmond office entitled: “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”

I believe the time has passed when calls to dismantle the FBI could be passed off as “fringe.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2023February 16, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", FBI, freedom of religious expression

Prayer Is Becoming Criminal In The U.K.

Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England, finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the U.K.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2023February 14, 2023•0•Freedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

As America Has Become More Secular, It Has Become Less Free

Why freedom in America is threatened as never before.

Here is something any honest person must acknowledge: As America has become more secular, it has become less free.

Individuals can differ as to whether these two facts are correlated, but no honest person can deny they are facts.

It seems to me indisputable that they are correlated. To deny this, one would have to argue that it is merely coincidental that free speech, the greatest of all freedoms, is more seriously threatened than at any time in American history while a smaller-than-ever percentage of Americans believe in God or regularly attend church.

by Blazingcatfur•September 27, 2021September 26, 2021•0•Freedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Why are the police handcuffing street preachers?

British police are arresting and investigating people over entirely legal speech.

This week police in Uxbridge, Greater London, handcuffed, arrested and detained a 71-year-old grandfather for fear he might have offended someone.

Naturally, the whole incident was filmed and uploaded to YouTube, where we can watch in horror at our hard-fought freedoms slipping through our fingers.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2021May 1, 2021•0•Freedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, UK