blasphemy against free speech

Perry de Havilland writes about the need to get rid of the stupid blasphemy laws in the context of a bunch of Christian nutters trying to use them to sue the BBC for Jerry Springer: The Opera. He is perfectly correct, even if JS:TO wasn't haft as good as it was that would be no reason for not wanting to get rid of an affront to the freedom of speach like the blasphemy laws. That a stupid superstition should be able to hobble free speach is wrong in itself, but it also provides an excuse for other stupid superstitions to demand the same. For example the recent thought crimes introduced by Labour about religious hatred, or try this for what blasphemy means in Islam. Let some children choose the wrong name for a teddy bear and you get arrested with the prospect of 3 months in prison or maybe a lynching. Perhaps it is too much a reminder for Islamic sensibilities of the way their peadophile prophet used to screw a girl so young she was still carrying her dolls around with her. Fuck you Muhammad (the 6th century mental case, not the teddy bear).