New Blasphemy Laws

And so it begins. Our unpopular Labour government attempts to shore up its large Muslim constituency, which it has been haemorrhaging to the Greens, by seeking to ban people from being ‘Islamophobic’. Its definition is questionable and could “inhibit” free speech about Muslims and their religion, the Government’s own ‘counter-terrorism tsar’ has claimed. Jonathan Hall, KC, claimed Sir Keir’s proposed definition, to be unveiled on Monday, could stop people from “freely criticising Islam or issues affecting its followers”. He told the BBC:

“The worry will be with loose language, people will feel inhibited about talking about things that they do think which are genuinely important today.”

This seems to be the first step towards creating Islamic blasphemy laws, those horrible legislative tools used around the world to prevent conversion of Muslims to Christianity and to hamper and vex minority Christian communities. Demographic and migration predictions already indicate large British Muslim populations towards the century’s end, so the suggestion that the United Kingdom could end up as a European version of the Islamic nations from which so many people apparently wish to relocate can no longer be described as hysterical scaremongering.

I am also a little surprised that a religious minority should require more legal protection that any other grouping, when its adherents have recently occupied, or still occupy, such posts as Mayor of London, Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Scottish First Minister, Justice Secretary, Sports Minister, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and having 25 MPs in the Commons and 20 Peers in the Lords. And when this bumbling Prime Minister finally departs, our present Muslim Home Secretary could well take his place (and would likely do a better job).

The moon god may require additional laws and thousands of global jihadis to protect his honour and keep him safe, but the God of the Bible will deal with His own blasphemers, detractors and malaperts. While I see Jesus Christ routinely mocked (AI will cheerfully generate homosexual and transgender depictions of Jesus but never of Mohammad, for instance), I shall quietly live my life for His honour, and wait for Him to deal with His adversaries in His own way and in His own time.

Now therefore, be wise, O kings;

Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Serve the Lord with fear,

And rejoice with trembling.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,

And you perish in the way,

When His wrath is kindled but a little.

Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

Psalm 2:10-12

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