See this website http://www.interights.org/page.php?dir=Publication&page=premingeramicus.php “In The European Convention on Human Rights
also guarantees both freedom of _expression_ and freedom of religion so its
provisions would be relevant. I guess it doesn’t surprise me,
though, that in a state with a monarchy and an established church, and where
the head of state may also be the head of the church (although I don’t
know whether that is so in Denmark) the country would have blasphemy laws on
its books, even if they aren’t enforced. Christine Corcos From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will Esser I read with interest a CNN article on the continuing controversy
over the Denmark Cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Of particular
interest was the following: "The Danish government says it does not control what is in the
country's newspapers and that courts will determine whether the newspaper that
originally published the cartoons is guilty of blasphemy." Sometimes I think we take it so for granted that
"blasphemy" is not forbidden in the Will
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