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MUSLIMS SAY "NO" TO GAY RIGHTS - LIBERAL DILEMMA
Schools in Birmingham, England have stopped teaching about LGBT rights following complaints by Muslim parents.
Earlier this month the city's Parkfield Community School suspended the lessons after protests were held.
Campaigner Amir Ahmed said Muslims felt "victimized." "Morally we do not accept homosexuality as a valid sexual relationship to have. It's not about being homophobic. that's like saying, if you don't believe in Islam, you're Islamophobic".
In a letter seen by the BBC, the school authority said it was halting the lessons until after Ramadan.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-47613578
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IT'S A CRIME TO INSULT HIM, BUT HE'S MUSLIM, SO JPP LIBERALS SAY NOTHING
"Insulting the president" is a crime in Turkey. If convicted, violators face up to four years in prison -- and longer, if the insult is public.
Since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's 2014 election, there have been 66,691 "insult investigations" launched, resulting in 12,305 trials thus far, and the numbers are increasing.
The criminalization in Turkey of "insulting the president" reached a new low in early March, when a father and daughter in Ankara accused one another of engaging in the punishable offense, as part of an internal family feud.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) decries this practice. In October 2018, Benjamin Ward, HRW acting director for Europe and Central Asia said:
"Turkish courts have convicted thousands of people in the past four years simply for speaking out against the president. The government should stop this mockery of human rights and respect people in Turkey's right to peaceful free expression."
This was not the first time that HRW called on the Erdoğan government to cease prosecuting people for insulting the president. In a 2015 article on the topic, HRW wrote:
"Turkish government figures regularly contend that insulting words are not free speech. Bodies including the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and human rights groups in Turkey and internationally have repeatedly criticized this position and Turkey's regular restriction of freedom of expression. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has repeatedly issued rulings on Turkey, finding violations of freedom of expression protected under article 10 of the European Convention.
"Since the end of 2014 the authorities have pursued a spate of such cases with the justice minister's permission, including against children, and several have entailed short periods of pretrial detention. Some cases have involved oral statements; others were for criticism on social media. In no case has the accused used or incited violence."
JPP LIBERALS THINK IT SHOULD BE A CRIME TO INSULT THEIR LEADERS, TOO
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