[lit-ideas] Re: Crack down on hate speech
- From: jimkandjulieb@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:43:46 -0400
Well, that outta work well. Imagine police governing what preachers can say
from the pulpit in America. Not that there would not be some
benefits.......but, really.
Julie Krueger
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Sent: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Crack down on hate speech
http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/21/top14.htm
Sermons to be recorded
By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: Sermons delivered in mosques before the Friday prayers will
now be recorded by police, it emerged on Sunday.
A source in a law-enforcement agency told Dawn that police officials would be
deployed in mosques across the country to film the Friday sermons. The move was
aimed at ensuring that hate speeches were not delivered from the pulpit.
Provincial home secretaries and senior officials of the countryâs
law-enforcement agencies attended a meeting on Saturday to chalk out a strategy
to keep close tabs on the Friday sermons â sometimes employed to foment
sectarian unrest.
The source said station house officers would give a report on the recorded
sermons and speeches to district police officers on a weekly basis.
He added police action could be initiated against those who offend peopleâs
religious beliefs.
A very important step in Pakistan -- very encouraging.
Lawrence Helm
San Jacinto
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