A ban on religious criticism?

According to the British daily The Independent at least 1,000 Muslim men living in the UK have several wives even though polygamy has been banned there since 1604. The Danish daily Jyllands-Posten writes: "The information on illegal polygamy has got people talking in the UK, because despite everything the entire country has not been infected by sharia-speak. ... This discussion should nevertheless be seen in a larger perspective which includes the cowardly and embarrassing entry ban for the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who had been invited by the British parliament [to show his anti-Muslim film Fitna]. And we should not forget that this selfsame British parliament was only one vote away from passing a law which would ban, among other things, this present article: the law would have disallowed criticism of religions and their more or less self-proclaimed representatives. These are dismal prospects."

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