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Religious Offence and Human Rights - The Implications of Defamation of Religions (Paperback)
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Religious Offence and Human Rights - The Implications of Defamation of Religions (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
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Should international law be concerned with offence to religions and
their followers? Even before the 2005 publication of the Danish
Mohammed cartoons, Muslim States have endeavoured to establish some
reputational protection for religions on the international level by
pushing for recognition of the novel concept of 'defamation of
religions'. This study recounts these efforts as well as the
opposition they aroused, particularly by proponents of free speech.
It also addresses the more fundamental issue of how religion and
international law may relate to each other. Historically, enforcing
divine commands has been the primary task of legal systems, and it
still is in numerous municipal jurisdictions. By analysing
religious restrictions of blasphemy and sacrilege as well as
international and national norms on free speech and freedom of
religion, Lorenz Langer argues that, on the international level at
least, religion does not provide a suitable rationale for legal
norms.
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