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This safeguard has not stopped cultural and opposition figures from lining up to attack the new law as arcane and anachronistic. Leading the fray is the advocacy group Atheist Ireland, which in January defiantly published 25 blasphemous statements on its website by figures as diverse as atheist author Richard Dawkins...
There could perhaps be no better (or worse, depending on your religious inclination) day to open a blasphemous art exhibition than Good Friday. As many Irish Catholics were dutifully attending church, a group of young, well-dressed Dubliners gathered in the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art to view an exhibition...
To date, there have been no prosecutions under the law. But some feel that its mere presence on the books is already coloring debate in the country. "Even if there is no official appetite for a show trial, media outlets can't take the chance of the law not being...
How did the people of Iran - those who are not part of the regime - respond to your story? When I was released, the Iranian people, many of them, came up to me and apologized for the way I was treated. They said, "I'm so sorry you were our guest...
You didn't know for six years in Iran that they were following you as closely as they were. People have asked me, "If you knew you were being watched or you thought you might be monitored, why did you still interview people?" I tell them, "Because what I was...