Comments on: Slap the Block http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: chakawali http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/#comment-7 chakawali Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:43:55 +0000 http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/#comment-7 Believe it or not I haven´t even seen the famous cartoons yet, however was directly affected by them recently. My husband Sohail so happens to have a Danish passport and was therefore not eligible to apply for a visa to come to Pakistan with me last month...Yes, we know, he´ll simly have to change nationality soon. In the mean time Euros are all with the Danes and some slanderous site eurabianews.wordpress.com informs of plans to make a stance in favour of DK at an upcoming Spanish-Danish soccer match. It´s all a bit much_when we all just get along? Believe it or not I haven´t even seen the famous cartoons yet, however was directly affected by them recently. My husband Sohail so happens to have a Danish passport and was therefore not eligible to apply for a visa to come to Pakistan with me last month…Yes, we know, he´ll simly have to change nationality soon. In the mean time Euros are all with the Danes and some slanderous site eurabianews.wordpress.com informs of plans to make a stance in favour of DK at an upcoming Spanish-Danish soccer match.
It´s all a bit much_when we all just get along?

]]> By: ahmedn8 http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/#comment-3 ahmedn8 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:39:09 +0000 http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/#comment-3 Isabella, thank you for providing a reference to the relevant article of the Pakistani constitution. It helps to explain the government's action in imposing a block. If proponents of freedom of expression want to have an impact they must work to have this article amended. However such activity will run smack into the issue of not providing preferred status to any specific religion, or indeed to religion in general. That may prove to be a little challenging in the present climate ... Isabella, thank you for providing a reference to the relevant article of the Pakistani constitution. It helps to explain the government’s action in imposing a block.

If proponents of freedom of expression want to have an impact they must work to have this article amended. However such activity will run smack into the issue of not providing preferred status to any specific religion, or indeed to religion in general. That may prove to be a little challenging in the present climate …

]]> By: Isabella Montefalco http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/#comment-2 Isabella Montefalco Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:44:20 +0000 http://ahmedn8.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/slap-the-block/#comment-2 Qiyas: Thank you for this explication of Pakistan's censorship scrap. Your question regarding the Pakistani Constitution's declarations about freedom of speech is answered by Section II, Article 19, of that document: The passage states that "Every citizen shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression, and there shall be freedom of the press, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam. . . ." In other words, free speech for right-thinkers only. Qiyas: Thank you for this explication of Pakistan’s censorship scrap. Your question regarding the Pakistani Constitution’s declarations about freedom of speech is answered by Section II, Article 19, of that document: The passage states that “Every citizen shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression, and there shall be freedom of the press, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam. . . .”

In other words, free speech for right-thinkers only.

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