TAILIEUCHUNG - Part 7- Britain

Tham khảo tài liệu 'part 7- britain', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 6 6 Political life The Rushdie affair Salman Rushdie is a British citizen from a Muslim background and a respected writer. In early 1989. his book The Satanic Verses was published. Many Muslims in Britain were extremely angry about the book s publication. They regarded it as a terrible insult to Islam They therefore demanded that the book be banned and dial its author be taken to court for blasphemy using language to insult God . To do cither of these things would have been to go against the long-established tradition of free speech and freedom of religious views. In any Case there is nothing in British law to justify doing either. There are censorship laws but they relate only to obscenity and national security Títere is a law against blasphemy but it refers only to the Christian religion. Moreover the tendency from the second half of the twentieth century has been to apply both types of law as little as possible and to give priority to the principle of free speech. is the good of being different if different means worse There has been growing concern about increasing crime in the country and this has resulted in much discussion about identity cards. Britain s fellow states in the European Union would like to see them introduced in the country. At the same time there has been increasing pressure for a Freedom of Information Act. Another possibility is that Britain will finally get a written constitution. An unwritten constitution works very well if everybody in the country shares the same attitudes and principles about what is most important in political life and about what people s rights and obligations are. In other words it works very well in a society where everybody belongs to the same culture. However in common with most other European countries today Britain is now multicultural. This means that some sections of society can sometimes hold radically different ideas about these things. The case of Salman Rushdie is an excellent example of this situation t .

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