Should governments ban the “improper treatment of objects of significant religious importance to a religious community”? That is what the Danish government is suggesting in a new law it announced last week that could see offenders imprisoned for two years. The proposed ban comes after a spate of incidents in
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Activists call out 11 Muslim member states to repeal death penalty for blasphemy
Eleven out of 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) still sanction the death penalty for blasphemy and apostasy, silencing their citizens and emboldening violence by non-state actors. For the past 70 years, Article 18 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights has condemned capital punishment for religious