Should Foreigners Be Allowed on this Forum?

[Hastur]

Ireland goes against the trend in Europe by actually expanding free speech. They just voted to remove blasphemy from their constitution. A good preemptive call if you ask me even if the last person convicted of blasphemy was in 1703 and the last time someone was prosecuted for it was in 1855.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social- ... -1.3678935

The European Court of Human Rights goes the other direction by upholding an Austrian court conviction for blasphemy, indirectly legitimizing the Charlie Hebdo attack.

https://www.dw.com/en/calling-prophet-m ... a-46050749

An Austrian woman's conviction for calling the Prophet Muhammad a pedophile did not violate her freedom of speech, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.

The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that Austrian courts carefully balanced the applicant's "right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected, and served the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in Austria."

The woman in 2009 held two seminars entitled "Basic Information on Islam," during which she likened Muhammad's marriage to a six-year-old girl, Aisha, to pedophilia.

EDIT: and Yes. This place would be very boring without foreigners. AFAIK I'm the only Swede here, everyone else is a foreigner.

[Fife]

AFAIK I'm the only Swede here, everyone else is a foreigner.

Some of my favorite Tennesseans are Swedes.

[Martin Hash]

I'm in Peru: does that make me a foreigner?

p.s. I'll be in Columbia next month, and Easter Island for Christmas.

[Montegriffo]

I don't want to spoil the mystique for you Martin but there's good news if you like candy.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Hey, I demand to be free to hate speech. We should all be grunting and screaming wordlessly instead.

I favor this stance.