The “freethinkers” should keep in mind
You have got to be kidding.
DHAKA: With four secular bloggers being killed by suspected Islamists in Bangladesh in recent months, police here have asked secular writers not to “cross the limit” and write anything which hurts religious beliefs of others.
“Do not cross the limit. Do not hurt anyone’s religious belief,” inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque said as investigators struggled to nab the killers of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabarty Neel who was hacked to death at his flat here on Friday.
What “limit”? Religious belief covers a vast territory, and not hurting any possible variant of it requires not saying anything at all ever.
The “freethinkers” should keep in mind that hurting someone’s religious sentiment is a criminal offence, Bdnews quoted Hoque as saying.
Oh should they? And what about murder? Isn’t that too a criminal offence? Isn’t it a much more serious criminal offence? Isn’t it a genuine criminal offence, while “hurting someone’s religious sentiment” is a childish and bogus one?
At least take them into custody (for their protection) if you’re gonna make it illegal– don’t basically make them fair game to killer mobs.
(Not that it being illegal is okay, but these police just seem to be abdicating any responsibility.)
Oh yes. Here is it. Don’t cross the limit. . .
That is a fine and simple solution, isn’t it.