| Topic: | Re:Should religious intollerance be allowed? | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 15/05/14 22:50:00 |
| Well, Sudan's attitude to human rights is, on this evidence, incompatible with English judicial traditions on the rights of individuals to express religious beliefs freely. However, we weren't always as tolerant of the rights of individuals; this kind of bigotry would have been considered perfectly OK in Tudor times, for instance, where expressing the wrong religion could see you turned into a street barbecue. We're obviously not that different today as human beings, we're just fortunate in this country to have had enlightened people setting up our judicial and legal frameworks to prevent this kind of abuse and tolerate multiple faiths and cultures living in the same country. It's worth remembering that next time some berk from UKIP or the Daily Mail bangs on about the evils of human rights and multiculturalism - they're not so far off these idiots in Sudan, really. |