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A Clash of Cultures: Hate Speech, Taboos, Blasphemy, and the Role of News Media
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 40 pp.
"The ability of individuals to openly speak their minds is a core principle not only of American journalism, but American democracy. Even when speech is insulting or disrespectful to others-speech that might run afoul of hate speech laws throughout Western Europe or be banned outright in much of the
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Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan: A Historical Overview
Islamabad: Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) (2012), 78 pp.
Blasphemy Laws and Pakistan's Human Rights Obligations
University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review (UNDALR), volume 14 (2012), pp. 25-54
"Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are criticised for being discriminatory against religious minorities and inconsistent with human rights standards. There have been attempts in the past to amend these laws. However, after protests by religious parties, each of these attempts failed. In 2011 the debate to
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What's Wrong with Defamation of Religion?
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 164-182
"In March 2010, in Geneva, the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC) voted by a narrow margin to accept a nonbinding Resolution on “Combating Defamation of Religions.” (Hereafter, “the Resolution.”) Resolutions like this one have been offered regularly at the HRC and in the General Assembly, have
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Blasphemie – Vorwürfe und Missbrauch: Die pakistanischen Blasphemiegesetze und ihre Folgen
Aachen: Missio (2012), 64 pp.
"Der Autor untersucht in dieser Studie die spezielle Dynamik der Theokratisierung von Staat und Recht – mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf den in Pakistan geltenden Blasphemiegesetzen. Welchen Einfluss hatten die Blasphemiegesetze, die mir der staatlichen und politischen Bevorzugung einer einzigen Rel
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Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery
Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2011), ix, 294 pp.
Blasphemy, Insult and Hatred: Finding Answers in a Democratic Society
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2010), 313 pp.
Unholy Speech and Holy Laws: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan—Controversial Origins, Design Defects, and Free Speech Implications
Minnesota Journal of International Law, volume 17, issue 2 (2008), pp. 303-385
"This article, inter alia, attempts to analyze and focus on the historical, formalistic, and design aspects of Pakistan’s existing blasphemy laws from a comparative perspective. It argues that, quite apart from procedural inadequacies of the Pakistani legal system and its special socio-political c
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Freedom of Expression in Islam
Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society (ITS), revised ed. (1997), xii, 349 pp.
