Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Editorial

Editorial Editorial At the time of writing this editorial, the repercussions of the Jyllands-Posten car- toons controversy continue to haunt us from every corner of the world. 1 Its impact has been so serious that some have even referred to it as an international crisis. Other media stories relating to human rights and religion or belief 2 also feature regularly in daily news stories: the bombing of religious buildings in sectarian vio- lence, legal exceptionalism in deference to religious laws, and the imprisonment of a cleric for preaching hate being just three such examples. Yet misrepresentations of religious communities and the defamation of religions and prophets is a daily occurrence and goes beyond this high pro fi le case. In some countries the misrepresentation of particular religious or belief communities is so entrenched that it has almost become identi fi able with the national culture. Such an industry of hate may be perpetuated instrumentally by particular leaders for their own ends or is fuelled by ignorance and prejudice. A scant look at recent reports of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief show numerous examples where even governments themselves have been instrumental in whipping up hatred http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and Human Rights Brill

Editorial

Religion and Human Rights , Volume 1 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 2006
Download PDF
4 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/editorial-oHu0ahl81q

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1871-031X
eISSN
1871-0328
DOI
10.1163/187103206777493456
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Editorial At the time of writing this editorial, the repercussions of the Jyllands-Posten car- toons controversy continue to haunt us from every corner of the world. 1 Its impact has been so serious that some have even referred to it as an international crisis. Other media stories relating to human rights and religion or belief 2 also feature regularly in daily news stories: the bombing of religious buildings in sectarian vio- lence, legal exceptionalism in deference to religious laws, and the imprisonment of a cleric for preaching hate being just three such examples. Yet misrepresentations of religious communities and the defamation of religions and prophets is a daily occurrence and goes beyond this high pro fi le case. In some countries the misrepresentation of particular religious or belief communities is so entrenched that it has almost become identi fi able with the national culture. Such an industry of hate may be perpetuated instrumentally by particular leaders for their own ends or is fuelled by ignorance and prejudice. A scant look at recent reports of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief show numerous examples where even governments themselves have been instrumental in whipping up hatred

Journal

Religion and Human Rights – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

There are no references for this article.