Blasphemy law is repealed in Ireland, enforced in Pakistan — and a problem in many Christian and Muslim countries on November 13, 2018The citizens of Ireland voted, in a nationwide referendum, to remove a clause from their constitution that had made blasphemy illegal. Ireland’s now-defunct Defamation Act of 2009 prohibited the “publication or utterance of blasphemous matter.” Just last year, in fact, Irish police opened a brief investigation into whether comedian Stephen Fry had broken the law […]