1. The Legalities of Blasphemy
... criticism is wrong. Hence, it is evident that religious leaders attempt to manipulate people by using the obscurity of the religion. There are similar opinions that blasphemous speech provokes violence[ CITATION Pau12 l 1055 ]. In the past decades, in which blasphemous movements led to threats of violence such as the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses and the Danish ... newspaper's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. In those cases, freedom of speech has caused arguments and violence in different religious groups [ CITATION Ary12 l 1055 ]. Despite the fact that blasp...
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