Seems The Guardian newspaper is either fascist or stupid.

There’s a new proposed law in Scotland which ostensibly abolishes an old law banning blasphemy. Only trouble is that it’s all a con: at least it seems that the new law replacing the above old law, if anything, reinforces the law against blasphemy.

Personally I think that if you or I want to say Church of England bishops or Muslim clerics are a waste of space, we should be allowed to say that, don’t you?

Anyway, Stephen Daisley writing in the Spectator claims the new law is a con, as does Emma Webb writing for Spiked.

In contrast, a Guardian article starts by saying “The Scottish government has published a bill that would decriminalise blasphemy….”.  And since no author is given for this article, I assume it is official Guardian policy.

The Guardian article DOES SAY the law relating to blasphemy and so called “hate speech” directed at people of another race, religion, sexual preference etc will be “modernised”. Well “modernise” is a great weasel word which is as good as useless. Doubtless Hitler claimed that his invasion of Poland and France was aimed at “modernising” Poland and France.

What the Guardian does not say, what the Spectator and Spiked article do say, is that the new law is so vague, that it enables politicians to arrest more or less who they want when they want, which of course is most politician’s dream, whether they're left or right of centre.

So the conclusion is that the Guardian either knows exactly what is going on and is thus supporting fascism in the form of banning criticism of religion and in the form of politicians being able to arrest who they want when they want, or the Guardian is clueless and has no idea what is going on.

Incidentally, the fact that the Scottish justice minister, Humza Yousaf, is a Muslim is, I am sure, entirely coincidental. (For the benefit of Guardian reading dim-wits, that was sarcasm).

Also entirely coincidental is the fact that Muslim leaders at the UN have been trying for years to ban all criticism of Islam worldwide. (For the benefit of Guardian reading dim-wits, that was also sarcasm.)