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Respond to UK publication The Critic comes out in favor of Sharia blasphemy laws Feb 14, 2025 9:00 am By Robert Spencer 7 Comments “To quell community tension,” you see, and after all, every society has its dominant religion and blasphemy laws, right? Sure. But Sebastian Milbank doesn’t acknowledge, and likely doesn’t realize, that there is an Islamic imperative to make Britain cease to be a “multicultural state” and become instead an Islamic one. He would almost certainly dismiss any such suggestion as “Islamophobic.” And so his article justifying Islamic blasphemy laws in the UK is just another signpost on his society’s road to self-destruction. “In defence of blasphemy laws,” by Sebastian Milbank, The Critic , February 9, 2025: …Nor are Islamic complaints about blasphemy purely the product of a desire to impose Sharia law. In former British territories, from Israel to India and Pakistan, blasphemy laws, specifically intended to protect Muslim sensibilities, were introduced by British colonial administrators — hardly figures championed by modern progressives. That isn’t a call for complacency of course. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws were radicalised and “Islamicised” in the 1980s, and it is under those revised laws that the death penalty — long excluded from English common law — was applied, often against religious minorities. As Britain has gone from a denominationally plural Christian state to a multicultural one, where Muslims and Hindus fight in the streets of Leicester, it is perhaps hardly surprising that the same laws used to quell community tensions in the British Raj would return, albeit in new, progressively inflected forms. A reality that has not dawned on much of the libertarian Right is that all societies have blasphemy laws — because any system of laws must punish those who attack the principles upon which those laws are based, even if it is through the relatively light measures of restricting publication and exacting fines…
