Blimey! Irish Courts Make Blasphemy Illegal!

No, I'm not kidding.

This is pretty freaky stuff, because if you're a seething, politically offensive hatemonger like me, you'd be suspicious that the 'updated' blasphemy laws are going to be used only against people who speak ill of Islam, rather than against Jesus or Christianity, or Judaism.

This article does not describe the ways in which the government will pursue blasphemous citizens, or even the extent to which blasphemy will be monintored.

It seems to me that this is a very ill-thought out law. If an Irish citizen puts a blasphemous comment on a web site hosted in Ireland, can they be charged? What if an anonymous poster plants a comment on an Irish owned web site? What if I go into an Irish pub and told the one about how Jesus stopped playing hockey because he kept getting nailed to the boards? Would I get charged? What if I just told the joke to an Irish person on the phone?

If this wasn't such a seriously deranged law for a western European country, I would think it was a joke. But it's not a joke, and Ireland should be considered Europe's most progressive country in adopting a law that is quite likely making Islamophiles the whole world over salivate with envy.

I used to think that France would be Europe's first Muslim country, but with this law-Ireland is really making me think otherwise. They are even catching up to the historically record high levels of British dhimmitude, too.