blasphemy law
Religious insult prohibition
A blasphemy law is legislation that criminalizes speech or acts deemed insulting to religion, religious figures, or sacred beliefs.
Such laws remain active in dozens of countries, with penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment to death.
Critics argue blasphemy laws suppress free expression and are used to persecute religious minorities: Pakistan's blasphemy law carries a mandatory death sentence.
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- sacrilegeViolation of the hallowed
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- holy bookSacred religious text
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
censorship · free speech · religious freedom · human rights · scripture · prophet · infidel · stoning · punishment · sedition · defamation · hate speech · criminal offense · clergy · fatwa · execution · death sentence · death penalty
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, establishment clause, religious accommodation
- media regulationcensorship, content moderation, press censorship, film censorship, art censorship
- church lawcanon law, church court, papal bull, papal bulls, papal decree
- Iranian Lawpenal code, judiciary, Supreme Leader, commercial code, election law
- religious lawreligious law, canon law, sharia, Islamic law, sacred law
- Saudi Lawsharia court, qadi, royal decree, mufti, fatwa
blasphemy lawsecularism
Separation of faith, state
separation of church and state · secular law · disestablishment · secular state · anticlericalism
blasphemy lawFirst Amendment
Constitutional free expression guarantee
freedom of conscience · religious liberty · press freedom · academic freedom · artistic freedom
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