It is always prudent not to ask what blasphemous act is said to have been committed, because under the law, repeating something blasphemous can itself constitute blasphemy.
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This year's #MetGala theme and outfits was disrespectful and blasphemous.
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I'm going to say something blasphemous: Lego bricks are ugly.
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A "blasphemous abomination" is how one conservative website described it.
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The secret, blasphemous ingredient: a half-teaspoon of smoky bacon fat.
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It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues.
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Now I realize how blasphemous a thought like that even was.
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ISIS would consider this blasphemous talk, but it is not new.
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In many Muslims' eyes, this makes them un-Islamic and blasphemous.
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A controversy erupted, complete with hate mail attacking it as blasphemous.
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Russian religious hard-liners have raged against the film as blasphemous.
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It's almost blasphemous to pretend you could write new classic rock.
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Is it blasphemous to serve Vietnamese-style coleslaw on an American holiday?
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Raising the issue of inheritance and inequality has long been considered blasphemous.
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In March, three people were arrested for posting allegedly blasphemous content online.
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In many Muslims' eyes, this makes their practice un-Islamic and blasphemous.
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It's blasphemous but I've been entirely unable to follow Oprah's wise words.
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But to pretty much everyone else in fashion, it's a blasphemous statement.
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The depictions outraged many Muslims, who consider such representations to be blasphemous.
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I still think she is a blasphemous powder keg of progressive self-immolation.
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The bill also proposes removing the ban on dueling, and publishing blasphemous libel.
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The scattered porn mags repeatedly remind us of this sniggeringly naughty, almost blasphemous, realization.
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They chiseled away the faces of statues and reliefs, declaring them blasphemous pagan icons.
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The chaos that ensues is batty and blasphemous, but also a blast to watch.
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The Council called the bill "anti-Islamic" and "blasphemous," according to Agence France-Presse.
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SEHGAL By the logic of the Nobel, it's blasphemous that Henrik Ibsen never won.
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The EU's demands are almost as blasphemous as the existence of the institution itself.
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In North Korea, anyone impersonating a member of the ruling family would be considered blasphemous.
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There's even a delightfully blasphemous scene in which Phil declares that he is a god.
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The Taliban itself has destroyed ancient sites in Afghanistan, on the grounds that they're blasphemous.
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For people who have been going there their whole lives, it was damn near blasphemous.
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That being said, we wholeheartedly support the consumption of sandwiches regardless of their blasphemous contents.
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Sufism — the liberal, mystical version of Islam regarded as blasphemous by fundamentalists — became widely popular.
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At this point, it's just blasphemous that Ryan Gosling has never been granted the title.
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Four later reappeared but left the country after being accused of sharing blasphemous content online.
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This sounds blasphemous, but maybe pull-up threes and baseline turnarounds just aren't for him.
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They have turned to idols — including their blasphemous belief in America as God's chosen country.
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What was it like trying to play this dark, blasphemous metal music during that period?
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Critic's Notebook To some, assessing an artist's work in light of his biography is blasphemous.
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Like the best episodes of The Young Pope, it feels like a blasphemous fever dream.
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Jewish groups called it anti-Semitic, and Catholic and Protestant organizations felt it was blasphemous.
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After years of wartime rationing, this deliberate abundance was provocative to supporters, and blasphemous to detractors.
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I'm always shocked when people say it's blasphemous simply to use the words Jesus and Mary.
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Will Rogen grant me a racist, sexist, blasphemous orgy involving starches, candy, and various cured meats?
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It sounds blasphemous, but flossing may not yield the protective benefits we've been told to expect.
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Check out the collaborations ahead, and decide for yourself if these kicks are blasphemous or brilliant.
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Though that may sound blasphemous to coffee purists, I don't think it's anything too out there.
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" Verily, the blasphemous shall receive due retribution for daring to join the word "rice" with "cauliflower.
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In 2013 students at the university where Hafeez taught accused him of making blasphemous Facebook posts.
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There isn't exactly a Bible verse that tells you if a neural network is blasphemous or not.
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No blasphemous rumors here, because Marilyn Manson is coming to a TV (or laptop) screen near you.
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In March, then-prime minister Sharif issued a public order to prosecute anyone posting blasphemous content online.
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"Uploading & sharing of blasphemous content on Internet is a punishable offense under the law," the message read.
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They can pit producers against parasites, the devout against the blasphemous, or the heterosexual against the homosexual.
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called for a ban on all blasphemous content on social media in March.
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Documenting feelings is not blasphemous, and especially not when what constitutes as "blasphemy" is open to interpretation.
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This idea of assessing an artist's work in light of his biography is, to some critics, blasphemous.
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Mr. Holmes's "Crashing" homed in on Mr. Holmes's background as a committed Christian in a blasphemous business.
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Russian authorities have seized their work in the past for being "blasphemous" and clearly don't like the jokes.
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Amman Governor Khaled Abu Zeid ordered that the writer be held for the "blasphemous" Facebook post, Petra reported.
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Maybe it's blasphemous to say this out loud, but Guns N' Roses have only seven unimpeachably great songs.
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The judge hearing this case threatened to ban all social media unless it was purged of blasphemous content.
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The invocation of the Holy Family was "ridiculous and blasphemous," said Ed Stetzer in a Christianity Today column.
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Mr. Raza's sentence comes amid a widening crackdown against blasphemous content on social media, especially Facebook and Twitter.
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The student, Mashal Khan, who attended Abdul Wali Khan University, was accused of posting blasphemous content on Facebook.
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DQ is even getting ready to experiment with something that may sound blasphemous -- ice cream that isn't dairy based.
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Like the HP Pre, We now have Lenovo Motos — both sound like blasphemous splicings that just don't belong together.
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At dinner though, I tried something that might be seen as semi-blasphemous — using coconut oil in my pasta.
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He was an American blogger who wrote prominently about secular issues -- works that his misguided attackers viewed as blasphemous.
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For centuries in Europe, celebrants elected a "lord of misrule" and parodied church customs, often in extremely blasphemous ways.
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He instructed Pakistan's foreign ministry to contact international foreign social media firms and demand the blocking of blasphemous posts.
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In 2013, Junaid Hafeez was accused by students at the university where he taught of making blasphemous Facebook posts.
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" And, in a moderately blasphemous statement, he continues, "When you find God, perhaps you'll have seen me as well.
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For example, Senator Jesse Helms protested furiously about the fact that this blasphemous artist had been supported with taxpayers' money.
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This may be slightly blasphemous to Moholy-Nagy's impressive legacy, but I personally am most drawn to his advertising work.
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Contrary to other forms of Italian swearing, these blasphemous swears are generally complex, articulate, and wordy—the longer, the better.
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In 2013, students at a university in central Pakistan where Hafeez taught English literature accused him of blasphemous Facebook posts.
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There are forty trillion films about violently assaulting criminals at Christmas but literally the only three movies about the most important moment in universal history is Monty Python's The Life of Brian (blasphemous), The Last Temptation of Christ (blasphemous), and The Passion of the Christ (orthodox, but all the dialogue is subtitled, so unwatchable).
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While we're on the topic of breakup songs, it seems blasphemous not to mention some of Adele's major league tear-jerkers.
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Geller had organized the Texas event in May 2015 featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, images that many Muslims consider blasphemous.
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In Saudi Arabia, the poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death last year for his verses, which religious authorities called blasphemous.
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But Iran's Shiite clerics view the faith as blasphemous because its founder, Baha'u'llah, declared himself to be a prophet of God.
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YouTube and other US sites including Facebook have faced periodic blocks in Pakistan over content that is deemed to be blasphemous.
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There's disturbing news from Pakistan, where a man has been handed the death sentence for allegedly making blasphemous comments on Facebook.
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There was still one hope, Katexa knew, blasphemous as it was—she had read the archives and knew of the others.
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Considered blasphemous by some Christians, the odd turn of phrase is a way of saying, "I can't believe what I'm seeing."
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Forgive me if this is blasphemous, since the song has such a rich blues heritage, but I liked this Elvis rendition.
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Khan seems to be asking where the true center is, a kind of questioning that he acknowledges some might see as blasphemous.
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In late January, an Islamabad-based man, Hafiz Ehtisham Ahmed, petitioned the high court to rid the internet of all blasphemous content.
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Sunni sovereigns condemned as blasphemous, by both Iranian-Shi'a and Sunni Islamists, are aware that their fiefdoms have been targeted for destruction.
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Even if you find the whole idea of "salad cake" kind of blasphemous, you'd have to admit: They look amazing and yum.
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That iconic cover image—by American artist Tim Presley—incited an intense reaction from religious groups for its blasphemous use of iconography.
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People imagine jumping in front of a train or smothering their child, or a host of other violent, sexual and blasphemous actions.
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Later, the Muslim women accused Bibi of making blasphemous statements against the Prophet Muhammad — a charge punishable by death under Pakistani law.
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Ideally, it needs to not be seen as blasphemous to the millions of comic book fans who view Watchmen as a sacred text.
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"The propagandists would have us pin our hopes on one man – a blasphemous, self-styled savior who is willing to kill," she said.
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In 2014 Saudi authorities confiscated the works of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet, which it labelled "blasphemous" (Darwish was an ardent secularist).
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It states that, by "mixing truth with falsehood in the name of the Holy Prophet", the original complaint could be seen as blasphemous.
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In April, a Pakistani university student, Mashal Khan, was beaten to death by a mob after being accused of blasphemous content on Facebook.
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The images were found on his phone and his Facebook page and were examined by Islamic studies professors and found to be blasphemous.
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But when I brought that up one time, Joe looked at me like I had said the most blasphemous thing in the world.
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Ectovoid represents a different kind of Southern darkness, peddling old-school death even as they find a blasphemous kinship with Demoncy's blackened crawl.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Reportedly, the oldest Turkish satirical magazine has shut down due to a "blasphemous" cartoon that depicted Moses.
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Last year, the university student Mashal Khan was lynched by classmates after he was accused of putting some blasphemous posts on social media.
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And as blasphemous as it may sound, a few of these paintings are as good as the sought-after, historically sanctioned early works.
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The custom of this publication is to strip the dead of their honorifics (he died in 2003), but that feels almost blasphemous here.
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In a statement the Taliban's main spokesman called the contest a blasphemous action and a hostile act by the Netherlands against all Muslims.
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It's almost blasphemous for me to say it, but rap has almost taken the place of rock 'n' roll for a young audience.
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One huge public controversy of the period involved government funding for avant-garde art that was sexually explicit, or that Catholics considered blasphemous.
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At this point, passing leadership and the responsibility of the franchise to new heroes and the actors who play them sounds potentially blasphemous.
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It had already claimed credit for forcing the PTI to put pressure on the Dutch government over a "blasphemous" cartoon competition, which was cancelled.
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They also regard the relatively gentle, folksy version of Islam practised by many Sunnis in Pakistan, with its Sufi shrines and saints, as blasphemous.
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I'm not being silly, and I don't mean to start any blasphemous rumors: We all find comfort and order in these kind of resonances.
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It imagined a world in which the themes of science and religion could coexist, making it too religious for some and blasphemous for others.
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There was nothing blasphemous in his writings, she said, and those who had accused him were damaging the image of Saudi Arabia, she said.
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Raza was arrested on 5 April at a bus stop where he was listening loudly to blasphemous content on his phone, according to Qureshi.
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It also remained unclear how the student from Chakwal had linked the blasphemous material—the website, the Facebook page, the translated book—to Ali.
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"The apostates must know, starting with the tyrant judges, that their blasphemous judgments ... will not pass without severe punishment," the Islamic State statement said.
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But access was blocked on Tuesday by authorities in Indonesia, home to the world's biggest Muslim population, for featuring content deemed pornographic and blasphemous.
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It's a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn't have great depth but makes up for it with volume.
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Prompted by radical Islamists, the demonstrators claim the proposed bill was blasphemous because they weakened rules requiring politicians to properly reference the Prophet Mohammed.
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Still, many South Korean conservatives consider any critique of the alliance blasphemous, even as Seoul finds itself being called a freeloader by President Trump.
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The suggestion, first made on Instagram, did not go down very well — some even called it blasphemous, Mr. Lehanneur said in a telephone interview.
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After the 2015 attack in Paris on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Mr. Erdogan warned that its blasphemous cartoons were "wreaking terror" on Muslims.
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The Christian Broadcasting article described Second Coming as "closer to blasphemous than biblical" and noted the comic's plans to present Jesus as a failure.
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Serrano has said the work is meant to be ambiguous but not blasphemous, alluding to the cheapening of religion and the graphic realities of crucifixion.
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The clerics who hold sway in Iran regard the Baha'i faith as blasphemous because its founder, Bahá'u'lláh, declared himself to be a prophet of God.
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The culture ministry has made it plain that it is not interested in supporting experimental art, which to the ruling party smells of blasphemous provocation.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A senior Facebook official met with Pakistan's interior minister on Friday to discuss a demand the company prevent blasphemous content or be blocked.
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Around the same time, there was an apparent shift in policy from merely restricting access to blasphemous online content toward prosecuting individuals accused of dissemination.
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Still, Catholic voters turned out in large numbers for Romney, whose Mormon faith is viewed by their church as blasphemous, polytheistic and not genuinely Christian.
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GRI acquired these rare albumen prints in 2015, the year ISIS seized the city and quickly moved to obliterate its structures, viewing them as blasphemous.
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The comic was an exercise in blasphemous nastiness, and over four seasons, the television show has taken that foul baton and gleefully run with it.
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Her hypnotic description of the blasphemous scene lures listeners toward the final question: Why would God put Satan in the garden in the first place?
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But access was blocked on July 3 by authorities in Indonesia, home to the world's biggest Muslim population, for featuring content deemed pornographic and blasphemous.
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The year was 1981, and Broadway's historic Winter Garden Theatre, which had hosted legends like Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein, was undergoing a blasphemous transformation.
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He did not bring any new teaching or change Islam in any way, but a majority of Muslims consider his claim to prophethood to be blasphemous.
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The image isn't blasphemous, for only Jesus is depicted with an alcoholic drink, but with a single stroke it thrashes the self-righteousness of religious extremists.
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The rallies were organized to protest allegedly blasphemous comments by Basuki "Ahok" Purnama, Jakarta's ethnic Chinese and Christian governor who is a close ally of Widodo.
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What if I told you that there was some kind of non-blasphemous way of satisfying both of your agave needs at the same exact time?
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But here's a blasphemous thought: What if this ritual of going after people like the weatherman actually reinforces racism and other "isms" instead of combating them?
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It was lauded internationally and banned locally; I still remember watching news clips of riots outside movie theaters that dared to screen such a blasphemous film.
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Russia's biggest cinema chain said on Tuesday it had decided not to show the film after receiving threats from religious activists and nationalists who deem it blasphemous.
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Also interesting to note is that he and Archie are ex-best friends, which seems almost blasphemous to Archie fans but is extremely compelling to watch onscreen.
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The general stress of the road was compounded by the rising furor over a supposedly blasphemous comment Lennon had made to a columnist earlier in the year.
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Conservative Muslim activists have been emboldened by their success in ousting Jakarta's governor earlier this year over supposedly blasphemous comments he made during his re-election campaign.
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But how about a more extreme question—one that's almost blasphemous in big-time campus football: Why should Baylor get to play football at all next season?
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And, as blasphemous as it may sound to some folks, there are plenty of couples out there who don't have sex at all on the big night.
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After Salman Rushdie published " The Satanic Verses ," in 1988, the Ayatollah Khomeini, of Iran, declared the book blasphemous and issued a fatwa urging Muslims to murder him.
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It may seem blasphemous to declare Superstore's prominence in such hallowed company, but TV romance has come a long way in the decade-plus since The Office.
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Salafi hard-liners took over mosques, assaulted liquor-store owners, enforced dress codes, attacked cultural events that they deemed blasphemous, desecrated Sufi tombs, and threatened secular activists.
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But that's why it's societally "acceptable" for them, the rich and the famous, and blasphemous for those of us who go relatively unprotected wearing heels in everyday life.
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One involves people saying things about their own religion that could be construed as blasphemous by others; many members of sectarian and minority religions get charged this way.
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The reaction was one among several of other users sharing similar criticism, calling the rapper "blasphemous" and the "antichrist," and accusing him of using Jesus for monetary gain.
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DUBLIN — For eight decades, the blasphemous of Ireland have risked the wrath not just of their maker and of the Roman Catholic Church, but of the government itself.
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"The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law," says Article 40 of the Irish Constitution.
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Either way, the botch made national news, and brought the work to the attention of a small but vocal group of Orthodox believers, who considered the design blasphemous.
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I'm going to say something that's blasphemous in this building, if you don't mind — so don't tell Jim [Bankoff], but maybe he'll hear it, because he listens too.
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As Italian news site The Local discovered, they have taken to the comment section to voice their frustrations with the blasphemous take on a beloved and world-renowned dish.
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I do have one really good friend who is also super religious, and she found the book very blasphemous and offensive and was a bit upset after reading it.
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The cousins eat as much blasphemous barbecue meat as possible and then some, but end up hiding in the bushes the moment they incorrectly believe they've spotted Navid's dad.
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The meeting comes after a Pakistani counter-terrorism court sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for making blasphemous comments on Facebook, part of a wider crack-down.
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We saw George Lucas tinker to a possibly blasphemous degree with his own creation in the former, and many of us wished the latter had been more tinkered with.
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" This petition reads: "I vehemently protest your showing the blasphemous play 'The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,' which, among other blasphemies, refers to the Virgin Mary as a lesbian.
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A few days after I left Jeddah, Ashraf Fayadh, a well-known local artist and poet, was sentenced to death after a judge deemed some of his poems blasphemous.
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Upon the pretense of writing a popular novel for us, you have been receiving cash advances from us, while passing through our press the sheets of a blasphemous rhapsody.
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Blasphemous as selling Picassos may sound, it would not only create a better balance of the sexes but also adjust the scales in a collection heavily weighted toward Picasso.
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In a first in the country, a Pakistani man has been sentenced to death for making "blasphemous" remarks on Facebook, according to prosecutors' comments reported on by The Washington Post.
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As the head of a morality brigade for the group Ansar Dine, Mahdi played a key role in planning the 2012 destructions, considering the mausoleums blasphemous according to Islamic codes.
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Yet suggesting that drinking is a quasi-blasphemous act obfuscates the fact that alcohol—and wine in particular—has been an inextricable part of Iranian culture and identity for millennia.
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Between the mosh-inspiring music and the blasphemous lyrical themes, Aura Noire presents the epitome of metal rage that undoubtedly has caused individuals to clutch their pearls around the globe.
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Not only is McInerney's prose ripe with foul language and blasphemous curses delivered in the impenetrable local idiom, but her style is so flamboyantly colorful it can't always be contained.
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At one point, we learn, it was condemned by the Pope as blasphemous; anyone who owned a volume was instructed to hand it over to the local priest for burning.
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The Bellavista huaca was occupied by Ichma starting in about 1000 A.D. and was later annexed by the Incan empire until the arrival of Spanish conquerors who deemed huacas blasphemous.
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Freeman's been using the House of Wills as a center for local Satanists, a tourist attraction for ghost hunters, and a gallery for his collection of grotesque and blasphemous art.
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As for those who consider the accessorizing of papal vestments with modern fashion a blasphemous exploitation, Cardinal Ravasi said it at least shows those Christian symbols still touch a nerve.
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He was accused of having blasphemous content on his mobile phone, and officials said he had been showing the content to people at the bus station when he was arrested.
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A lush scene of Pius donning his vestments, scored to LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It," sounds insane if not blasphemous, but it's sacred and profane in the best way.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest cinema chain said on Friday it had changed its mind and would now run the film "Matilda" despite threats from religious conservatives slamming the film as blasphemous.
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I chose to use my commemorative mug from the Vatican museum for this decidedly blasphemous act, placing a scoop of instant coffee into it and simply holding it under the tap.
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Ted, a frustrated Catholic priest with secret secular ambitions, and Dougal (his dim-witted sidekick) are sent by the local bishop to protest against a film condemned as "blasphemous" by the pope.
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But an initial investigation by the government revealed that Biplop Chandra Baddya's Facebook account had been hacked by Muslim attackers, who then blackmailed the 25-year-old before posting the blasphemous comments.
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One pie that my friends and I tried and quickly pushed aside, the barbecue di maiale, was heaped with pulled pork, mashed potato, corn and — perhaps most blasphemous of all — Cheddar cheese.
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Find a church pew or a table and listen to the words of Pastor Kendrick, along with some accompanying imagery that is definitely holy and not-at-all blasphemous in any way.
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It's almost blasphemous to just go about your day when the everyday is being so systematically lacerated, or to ever enjoy yourself in the face of a tragedy that never lets up.
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I know this is blasphemous to say, but I prefer Bollinger as a painter: he has a softer and gentler touch that adds something to the emotional tenor of his subject matter.
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He thought it was a good idea to star (with Damon) as a fallen angel in Kevin Smith's "Dogma" (1999), which Disney decided was too blasphemous for its Miramax label to release.
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The potentially blasphemous question rears its head again: if it's a curse to be a Sidenius, is Per cursed by generations of unerring piety, or by that ancestral aberrant flash of madness?
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Perhaps it thought it was a credence and not a credenza at all, one that had fallen, in the manner of an unlucky angel, to the blasphemous station of a mere sideboard.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A mob beat a Pakistani student to death at his university campus on Thursday after he was accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media, university and police officials said.
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It was, for many years, derided by some Christians as blasphemous for the way it underlined the humanity of Jesus and for how it elevated Judas to Jesus's equal in terms of perspective.
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The name can't promote criminal activities, incite racial hatred or ridicule the government or organisations, and the likes of Jesus, Saint or Satan are banned on grounds of being blasphemous, The Times reports.
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He said Facebook through Pakistan's ambassador in the United States has told him that over the past few months it had blocked 62 blasphemous webpages, and 45 in the past several days alone.
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"Even if Jesus came down, people would argue over whether to vote for him," Rodney D. Sieh, the editor of FrontPage Africa, said in a boldly blasphemous comment about this ostentatiously Christian country.
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When he briefly returned home for his family's Kurdish New Year celebrations in March 2013, Mr. Mohammad was repulsed by what he saw as blasphemous celebrations, whose origins lay outside the Islamic tradition.
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It's very much like a cult now, where the purpose is to substantiate what the religion is telling you and anything that runs counter to the religion is inherently false and blasphemous, even evil.
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Google's positioning of the cheese is blasphemous, simultaneously defying both culinary physics (how do you cook it to drip down the bun like that?) and good taste (it'll result in a soggy doughy mess).
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She tagged Missy Elliot because it's practically blasphemous to discuss Halle Berry posters without referencing the iconic line "Don't I look like a Halle Berry poster?" from "Work It." Ok #PrinceHarry, I see you!
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"Kaddish," with its literally Heaven-storming narration ("O my father, ancient, hallowed, lonely, disappointed Father, rejected ruler of the universe"), will always remain troublesome—at least until someone satisfactorily rewrites the rambunctiously blasphemous text.
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The video also shows three masked men in front of the Greek symbol of a fascist-inspired 1930s political movement, Brazilian Integralism, claiming responsibility for the attack, and denouncing the Netflix special as blasphemous.
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He borrowed his imbalance from Lowell, John Berryman, and, especially, Sylvia Plath, whose poems' occasional comparisons of her personal trauma to the atrocities of the Holocaust influenced Seidel's many blasphemous poems about the camps.
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It was the original version of the World War 2020: Episode 3 "ISIS" and the artist was concerned that his usage of a specific Muslim prayer song could possibly be seen as disrespectful or blasphemous.
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The creators of this boycott dubbed Sweet Jesus' branding "blasphemous," and complained about an alleged picture on the company's website that shows a cup of ice cream in place of Jesus in a Nativity Scene.
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It might be a little blasphemous to say, but being able to get the same thing for a couple hundred bucks, in a form you can easily throw into a backpack, seems like an improvement.
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In other words, the Austrian verdict, upheld by the ECHR, went far beyond the principle that in some circumstances, blasphemous acts (like burning a holy book on the street) might be a public-order offence.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif earlier this month ordered that blasphemous content on social media be removed or blocked and that anyone posting such material be punished, and the government requested a meeting with Facebook.
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The cartoon, which depicted a bearded man, presumably in heaven, in bed with two women asking God to bring him wine and cashews, provoked an uproar in Jordan, where many saw the image as blasphemous.
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Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told AP Thursday a Pakistani official in their Washington, D.C. embassy approached both social media giants about tracking down Pakistanis -- at home or abroad -- who make blasphemous statements online.
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"It's a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn't have great depth but makes up for it with volume," James Poniewozik wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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In her love songs, she celebrated her object of affection, often described as an angel or celestial being; for someone so raunchy and blasphemous, sanctified tropes always seemed to find their way into the tunes.
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On April 14th a student at Abdul Wali Khan University, in the north-west of the country, was lynched by a vigilante mob of his fellow students, having been falsely accused of publishing blasphemous material online.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The two lead actors in Russian movie "Matilda", which religious conservatives have condemned as blasphemous, have declined to travel to Russia for the premiere because they fear for their safety, the film's director said.
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Pence tells graduating Christians to be ready for attacks on their faith Blasphemous, appropriative, and wildly popular: the rise of the celebrity prayer candle Why China's new tariffs could make the US trade war even worse
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All of those early Norwegian black metal records embraced various interpretations of darkness, but in contrast with most of their peers, Emperor's approach felt refined—more black velvet than blood red, Satanic majesty versus blasphemous hatred.
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It all seems dumb in the best way possible, and I realize that there's something blasphemous about Konami stomping around in Kojima's crowning achievement, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't look incredibly fun.
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Blasphemy has been another red line for extremist violence, with mere accusations of blasphemous speech frequently leading to vigilante attacks, even if the case had not been taken up in court under Pakistan's widely criticized blasphemy laws.
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" The latter was directed by the rising young director Timofey Kulyabin, who drew headlines last year when a religious leader in Russia threatened to bring him to court for staging a supposedly blasphemous production of Wagner's "Tannhäuser.
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As another M.L.S. season begins this weekend, it is fair to ask whether soccer fans and numbers nerds are ready for such blasphemous thoughts, or whether any single statistic can take the full measure of a player.
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The lines about the Holy Land being zoned for religion (by mysterious agents) ring slightly false, in part because Amichai's personal religious zone—a veritable switchboard of complaint—is so lit up with his own blasphemous electricity.
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Indeed, most Muslims do not view adherents of the Nation of Islam and similar movements to actually be Muslims, as many of their beliefs are contrary or even downright blasphemous to many of the core tenets of Islam.
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The episode has dogged the Obama administration ever since, due to allegations that the White House downplayed the violence and falsely pinned it on a blasphemous YouTube video to protect its legacy of intervention during the Libyan unrest.
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Daily Dot politics editor David Covucci compiled some of these tweets, which included one by Posobiec lamenting the replacement of midcentury bowlers and suits with cargo shorts, and another arguing that the offending item is worse than blasphemous.
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With each blistering release, the fusion of classic speed metal and the finest of black and thrash metal's formative years serves to highlight Abigail's dedication to blasphemous revelry as well as to other talent that the band admires.
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Russian religious conservatives last year waged a campaign to block the release of Matilda, a Russian movie the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers described as blasphemous for its depiction of a romance between the tsar and a young ballerina.
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It would be near blasphemous to use suffering on this scale as the backdrop to provide the beats of suspense and near escape if it weren't for Sepetys's clear commitment to preserving the memory of the forgotten, the drowned.
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Yet Brown, 55, who grew up in a religious family in Chateauguay, Quebec and identifies as a Christian, argues that the seemingly in-your-face blasphemous qualities of his latest work aren't at odds with the Bible at all.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest cinema chain said on Tuesday it would not show a film depicting an affair between a ballerina and the last Russian tsar, after receiving repeated threats from religious activists and nationalists who deem it blasphemous.
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A monument of pagan majesty, in her strapless gown, she is an alabaster bust endowed with the breath of life; more blasphemous still, she drips water onto the head of her devotee, a hangdog reporter named Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni).
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Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, in 1989 calling for Mr. Rushdie to be killed because of his book "The Satanic Verses," which the ayatollah found to be blasphemous and insulting toward Muslims.
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When the brilliantly provocative "Like a Prayer" video debuted in February 1989, just a day after the release of a high-profile Pepsi commercial starring Madonna, the Vatican and various religious groups condemned the clip for including allegedly blasphemous imagery.
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The leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, that called on Muslims to the kill the author after his book was condemned as blasphemous, forcing him into years of hiding.
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In recent months, Pakistan's government has been vocal about the issue, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issuing an order last month for removal of blasphemous content online and saying anyone who posted such content should face "strict punishment under the law".
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Mohamed Hossam Abdelrehim, who served as Egypt's top judge in 2014-15, was appointed justice minister, filling a role which had been vacant for 10 days since Ahmed al-Zend was sacked after making comments seen as blasphemous to Islam.
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban urged Afghan soldiers on Thursday to attack Dutch troops serving in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in retaliation for what it called a blasphemous action and a hostile act by the Netherlands against all Muslims.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Facebook has assured Pakistan that concerns about blasphemous content on the social media site will be addressed and a company delegation will visit this week to discuss the issue with the government, the interior minister said on Tuesday.
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Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), adapted from a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, was condemned as blasphemous by many pundits (a good number of whom didn't bother to actually see it) and the target of protests and angry rallies.
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And while, sure, maybe all of this is extremely blasphemous and anyone trying to get a hold of a pair of these might want to get themselves to confession instead, we must acknowledge the next-level Catholic-inspired creativity here.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Members of a Virginia arts commission are calling a pair of Mark Ryden paintings blasphemous and threatening to slash funding for the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for including them in a forthcoming show.
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To underscore the risk, the Defense Department pointed to public and at times violent demonstrations in the region that followed reports of Quran burnings, blasphemous films and the 2012 release of a video that purportedly showed Americans soldiers urinating on dead enemy combatants.
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Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi were allegedly inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to attack the "First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest," which encouraged artists to draw depictions of the prophet — an act considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
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While Incantation seemed to have little trouble at its Russia dates, protesters appeared outside its Moscow show, and band members complained of being prohibited from saying their "blasphemous" song titles onstage, a provision that King Dude also encountered on a more recent run.
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And then, quite suddenly, he stepped off the barrier and onto me, his entire body weight on my shoulder for thirty excruciating seconds while I considered pitching him into the crowd but concluded this would have been poor sport and, somehow, blasphemous.
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While Deaibes laughed off the first wave of witch hunts as comically inept—clueless customs officials looking for illicit hard rock CDs while blithely waving through blasphemous black metal ones – the second round was better informed and more serious in its consequences.
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Controversial when it opened on Broadway in 1971 — some Christians found either the style or substance of the storytelling blasphemous, and some Jews were concerned about the portrayal of Jewish leaders — it has since become a staple of the musical theater canon.
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Skal also interviews a wide range of people with varying degrees of investment and interest in Halloween: businessmen for whom it serves as a ludicrous marketing opportunity, witches who view it as a sacred day, and religious individuals who consider it blasphemous.
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In 2016, Mr. Hassanzada's 66-foot mural for the Cactus Cafe, an artist-run Kabul space for exhibitions, concerts and readings, was destroyed by the cafe's managers after religious extremists said that monsters in the painting were blasphemous images of the devil.
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When I finally got away from the Bible Belt, I suddenly found myself indulging in the most blasphemous, brutal music I could find, maybe to make up for lost time, but soon found that here, too, existed endemic varieties of anti-Jewry.
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Fourth, it was on a trip to Rome that he was so shocked at the blasphemous devilry of that vile city that he decided he must destroy the soft and decadent Italian church and remake it in his own uncompromising and upright German image.
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This is a Disney live-action riff on Winnie the Pooh, so it would be blasphemous if everything didn't work out in the end and everyone wasn't primed to live happily ever after (or in another sequel, should the film perform at the box office).
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More than 20,85033 people have signed onto a Christian petition asking Netflix to cancel a "blasphemous" TV series, citing complaints including God being "voiced by a woman" and a friendship between an angel and a demon — but the show actually streams on Amazon Prime.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese church leaders have demanded the cancellation of a concert by Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila on the grounds its songs are blasphemous, leading the group to say it is the target of a campaign based on fabrications to crush freedom of expression.
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It seems tragic and almost blasphemous from the outside looking in, but Adam Kirshenblatt, a hockey historian and Stanley Cup expert, believes this process is just part of the changing character of the Cup and a big reason why the trophy is so unique.
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It was felt that scientists were the only ones who could speak with authority on behalf of science; there was something blasphemous about subjecting the discipline, supposedly the apex of modern society, to the kind of cold scrutiny that anthropologists traditionally reserved for "premodern" peoples.
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"One of our most quoted sections from the ToS is: 'You understand that using the Archive may expose you to material that is offensive, triggering, erroneous, sexually explicit, indecent, blasphemous, objectionable, grammatically incorrect, or badly spelled,'" Matty Bowers, AO23's policy and abuse chair, tells The Verge.
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Foremost among her many provocations are the music video for "Like a Prayer" (1989), which the Vatican condemned as blasphemous, her simulation of masturbation during her Blond Ambition tour in 1990, and "Sex" (1992), an erotic photo-book chronicling her sexual adventures with both men and women.
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Which raises the question — maybe blasphemous for a fashion person, but let's go with it — of whether it's time for the red carpet circus to hit pause, or take a moment out; to play more of a supporting, as opposed to starring, role in such public events.
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A lot of the pop culture references in the adaptation have been updated, improved, added to, or made more cinematic, including a sequence in which The Shining gets turned into a survival horror experience in a way that's both blasphemous and easily the most memorable part of the movie.
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Last year, for instance, a Christian man summoned to the FIA office in Lahore jumped off the fourth floor—he alleged he had been forced by his interrogators to perform sexual acts on his cousin, who had been arrested for sharing a blasphemous image on a Facebook messenger group.
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When, in 2010, and in a mangled form, his unfinished film "A Fire in My Belly" (1986-87) was included in a group show of queer art at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, both the Catholic League and members of Congress declared it blasphemous and demanded its removal.
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McDonald's, he adds, must aspire to be "the place where Americans come together to break bread"—a blasphemous touch, but openly backed by Hancock, with his shot of a burger-munching family gathered on a bench, and of a woman, in slow motion, feasting ecstatically on her bun.
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In 1993, when a World Youth Day event in Denver featured a woman playing the role of Jesus Christ in a Passion play, she called it "blasphemous," and delivered a litany of complaints during her show about what she called the "ungodly" influence that liberals were having on the church.
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Americanized Chinese food, blasphemous as it may be to some, has carved out a place for itself in Western culture—Jews eat it on Christmas Day, busy families and bachelors order it straight to their doors, and pretty much everyone else eats it when they're just craving those comforting, umami flavors.
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Thanks to a racist comment, he stumbled onto a winning combination: a purposefully unholy conflagration of African-American spirituals, chain gangs songs, the blues, and Satanic black metal that drew lines between Scandinavia and the Delta, summoning both the blasphemous evils of the North and the bloodstained history of the South.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - It is probably borderline blasphemous, if not contractually forbidden, for any member of the American press to criticize "The Post," Steven Spielberg's cinematic retelling of how the Washington Post managed to catch up to the New York Times, defy the government and publish the Pentagon Papers.
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"When Life of Brian came out the BBFC gave it an AA without any cuts (this meant no admission to under 215s, so is similar to the modern 123), but a number of local authorities considered that the film was potentially blasphemous and so banned it in their local authority area," Austin says.
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Though the doctor's directive seems blasphemous to Kylie and other In-N-Out lovers, it's pretty normal for a doctor to recommend avoiding fast food, whether you're pregnant or not, says Lynn L. Simpson, MD, FACOG, professor of women's health in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center.
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"Mon Ketchup" ("My Ketchup") focuses on the red menstrual flow of a seated woman with her panties around her ankles; "Mes desirs, ma force" ("My Desires, My Strength") and the strong, juicy, splatter form at the center of "Mon Plaisir" ("My Pleasure") visually restate the menstrual theme of Francis Picabia's blasphemous "La Sainte Vierge" ("The Blessed Virgin," 1920).
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An American metal band (that spoke under the condition of anonymity to ensure the safety of the Russian promoter who put on its Moscow and St. Petersburg dates) arrived to play its first show, only to find that the promoter had been asked to sign a document declaring that the band wouldn't be endorsing anything blasphemous.
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PayPal's user agreement stipulates that you may not use your account to "to display, upload, modify, publish, distribute, disseminate, transmit, update or share any information" that "[i]s grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever," it reads.
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But using the old-fashioned charge of blasphemy (with the implication that religions or philosphical systems have a right to be shielded from attack) is surely the worst possible signal that a liberal democracy could send to a world where trumped-up or malicious charges of blasphemous behaviour are causing untold suffering, from the cities of Punjab to the villages of Nigeria.
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" Proust's essay, lately translated by Catholic traditionalists, came to mind while watching the beautiful and blasphemous spectacle at the Met Gala on Monday night, where a parade of stars and fashionistas swanned about in costumes inspired by the aesthetics of Catholicism, while a wide variety of genuinely Catholic articles, from vestments to tiaras, were displayed in a Met exhibit titled "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
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It may be perceived by many as blasphemous, but I have always had a difficult time in equating the demonstrated lack of athletic qualities in winter sliding sports, like bobsled, luge and skeleton, that depend more on technology and less on athleticism with those sports that reflect the epitome of strength, agility, endurance and strategy (nordic and Alpine skiing, speed and figure skating, and so on).
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The comments were also spread virally on the company's Messenger app, as well as being shared on Facebook READ: Inside the war to kill off 2012chan — and crush QAnon The 25-year-old student went to the police on Friday night to report his account had been hacked and that the hackers were demanding 20,000 Bangladeshi Taka ($235) or threatening to post blasphemous comments to his Facebook page.
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" The ship's collision with an iceberg is set to "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, and the whole thing ends with an emotional rendition of "My Heart Will Go On." If you're still emotionally raw from watching Jack meet his death in the ice-cold depths of the Atlantic, you might want to skip over Corden's blasphemous re-enactment of the scene to N*Sync's "Bye Bye Bye.
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For one thing, North American metal fans deserve a damn break after staring wistfully across the ocean towards the Wackens, Hellfests, or Nuclear War Nows of the world; for another, especially at this point in time, I am thrilled to not have to whip out my passport and explain myself (and my blasphemous sartorial decisions) to a phalanx of po-faced border guards on my way to heavy metal hell.
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The use of the indigenous headdress is not naïve; it is present in the piece as a primary symbol to evoke the importance of the people who underwent mass murders; it is not used as a grotesque costume; it is not intended as a tool to play on blasphemous exoticism, nor is it intended to legitimize a cause that I feel solidarity towards, but which is not historically mine.
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It's themed to look like an ancient Egyptian palace, shaped like a big blasphemous pyramid, with gold-topped columns and animal-headed statues—the new visa application lounge may be plonked not too far from imitation frescoes showing some third-dynasty king working his peasants to death—but if you look up, the whole thing is suspended beneath a lattice of steel supports, the same kind of thing you'd see in an aircraft hangar.
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But it would also mandate many other vague categories be proactively policed by tech giants including content that: is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; [or] harm minors in any way;[or] infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;When it comes to issues involving "security of the State or cyber security," platforms would be required to trace the origin of any activity deemed as suspicious and turn that information over to authorities within 72 hours of receiving a request.
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" Here's a complete list of the indie games coming to the Switch: "Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition," September 22019"Hotline Miami Collection" available Monday"SuperHot" available Monday"Risk of Rain 22019," this summer"Torchlight II," TBD"Eastward," early 22019"Freedom Finger," September 20193"The Touryst," November"Skellboy," December 22019"Röki," this winter"Youropa," 22019"EarthNight," 22019"Dungeon Defenders: Awakened," February 2020"Skater XL," 2020"Blasphemous," September 10"Close to the Sun," 2019"Cat Quest II," fall 2019"Spiritfarer," spring 2020"Trine 20193: The Nightmare Prince," TBD"Creature in the Well," September 6"One Finger Death Punch 2," December 2"Best Friend Forever," February 14, 2020"Phogs!
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