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You're from Denmark. I know you know.
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I know you're dead wrong. Remember, we had asmall kerfluffle about some cartoons a few years back? Cartoons that hardly any US newspapers had the b.alls to print, btw.
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The human rights laws, especially in countries in northern Europe, are broad to imply that any speech criticizing Islam, in this example, is hate speech and is criminally liable for it.
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You're absolutely making stuff up, here. There is what could be called hate speech legislation in Denmark - it's paragraph 266b in the penal code, btw. - but it's a complete fabrication to say that "any speech criticizing Islam" is criminal. Islam is roundly criticized.
You have to clear quite the hurdle in publishing deliberate, offensive falsehoods before 266b can come into play. (Incidentally, the only person to have managed to get himself a conditional prison sentence under 266b is - a Muslim.)
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And I don't know if this is an EU directive or specific in some countries, but hate speech is broadly defined here and is a criminal offense
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We'll add that to the list of things you don't know.
Not that it has anything to do with a logo for sports resort in the UAE.
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