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Pope Francis: Free expression doesn't mean right to insult others' faith

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  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    Yes, the Pope is right. Freedom of expression , speech, etc.. does not give one the right to defame, humiliate, insult and put anyone into disrepute. There must be limits.

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    The Pope is wrong to encourage and endorse violence by saying that "If a friend says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him. It's normal, it's normal. One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's fait ...
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  • ISMAIL 9 years ago

    You are delusional if u think there's a penalty for swearing on civil court.What happened in Paris is deplorable but you cannot make fun of any religion in the name of freedom of expression .Have you ever seen or heard any Mo ...
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  • SMART FREMPAH, UK 9 years ago

    The Pope has said exactly what I have always thought. It must be underscored here that the defamation, insults or degrading of ones religion doesn't warrant the trigger of the gun. Yes, freedom of expression should have its ...
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  • PEACE 9 years ago

    YES, THE POPE IS RIGHT, BUT A SNAKE WOULD BITE YOU WHETHER YOU CALL IT SNAKE OR MR. SNAKE. AS FAR AS ISLAM IS CONCERNED, THE POPE IS ONE ENEMY THAT MUST BE KILLED IN THE NAME OF ALLAH. THAT'S THE TRUTH. WHAT HE SAY NOW OR IN ...
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  • musah 9 years ago

    The pope wants to encourage peace and coexistence but moslems are not to be trusted in that regard. The quran is the cause of violence in world. Because if he does not pretend to believe all prophets no one will believe him i ...
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  • Ali 9 years ago

    This past weekend, millions of folks in France wore buttons and headbands that proclaimed in French: “I am Charlie Hebdo.” Those whose buttons proclaimed “I am not Charlie Hebdo” were asked by the police to remove the ...
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  • Nana Ansah 9 years ago

    If a friend "says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him," Francis said.

    "It's normal, it's normal," he said of such a response. "One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make ...
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  • bash 9 years ago

    i will advise u to go back n do more research about islam b4 you say things u dont kno

  • Hassan_Yaayima _ JASIKAN 9 years ago

    Kudos to the pope.
    yea if some of u foolishly think the pope is wrong in saying this, deb ur heads need to be examined.
    y shud u blastphame somebodys faith, make fun of somebodys faith to de extent where u make cartoons of ...
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  • guit 9 years ago

    HASSAN YAAYIMA NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE U CAN KILL FOR GOD ..JUDGEMENT IS GOD'S

  • bash 9 years ago

    pope is hundred% right for saying "Free expression doesn't mean right to insult others' faith." tho am perfectly against the killing. i dont think u can keep on receiving insult repeatedly from some one u cant fight legally b ...
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  • GHANABA 9 years ago

    I totally agree with you Kofi. What happened to the Christian principle of ' Turning the other cheek' when one is slapped? The Pope of all people should not be preaching violence.

  • Sappey-Agboh, Atsiame-Alabohkope 9 years ago

    Both you and Ata had failed to appreciate what the Pope said. You were absolutely wrong.The import of his message was: freedom of expression should go with responsibility. We have to be circumspect in our utterances/publicati ...
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  • Kwaku Eshun 9 years ago

    Thank God for your Honesty Papa. Shame onto the West for they Hypocrisy.

  • NANA YAW 9 years ago

    THE POPE IS RIGHT. BUT BOKO HARAM IS NOT KILLING BCOS SOMEONE INSULTED THEIR FAITH. THESE IDIOTS KILL BECAUSE THEY ARE CRAZY AND ARE USING RELIGION TO DESTROY LIVES.

    I HAVE HEARD MUSLIMS IN GHANA INSULT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH ...
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  • ISMAIL 9 years ago

    Thank You Brother!

  • mimi 9 years ago

    What exactly did the muslim preacher say? He probably said Jesus is not God...and there is not way you can clasify that as an insult. Stop muddying calm waters.....

  • NANA YAW 9 years ago

    What exactly did the muslim preacher say?

    THE PREACHER SAID CHRISTIAN WOMEN DANCE IN THE CHURCH AND THE MEN LOOK AT THEM. wHEN A CHRISTIAN PREACHER PREACHES AND SAYS SOMETHING AGAINST ISLAM, THERE IS A DISRUPTIVE ARGUMENT ...
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  • Naaba kugri 9 years ago

    Even in Islamic countries like Iraq theres Christians . If any one want to converts to be a Christian and keep it to himself and worship no one will harm him in Islamic country. But those you are referring to are those wh ...
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  • NANA YAW 9 years ago

    If any one want to converts to be a Christian and keep it to himself and worship no one will harm him in Islamic country

    IF A CHRISTIAN TRIES TO PREACH TO A MUSLIM AND CONVERT HIM TO CHRISTIANITY, THAT IS A CRIME IN ISLAMI ...
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  • Naa Zo Dazhiegu - USA 9 years ago

    Look Massa, don't use lies to create a point. We are all Ghanaians and we are in Ghana. Can you give a single example where Muslims insult other faiths? You know too well what you're saying is a big lie.

  • WOFA WOHOO 9 years ago

    Freedom of speech has a limit,no one in this world worshiping GOD or ALLAH and fear him respecting the teachings of Koran and the Bible would go out and just kill innocent people and claims it is in the name of the ALMIGHTY.T ...
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  • Kabom 9 years ago

    He just said that as well.

  • EFO KOKU 9 years ago

    Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. Limitations to it means it doesn't exist. As human beings we will keep on offending each other. But is masacaring the right thing to do when one offends you? Have you ever seen any Chri ...
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  • syllah 9 years ago

    Ur response will be whom I am as a person, as an Ashanti king bi will banish you from my kindom by degrating my subject. But as common man like me insulting me and my family comes with a slaps or wo furma. As for you I have j ...
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  • Naaba kugri 9 years ago

    That's right. Those who kill the innocent in the name of god are wrong and we don't believe that is Islam. Their only doing their political bidding in the name of Islam. Like boko haram some of us Muslims don't regard them as ...
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  • IBRAHIM 9 years ago

    WHAT WAS SO DECENT ABOUT MOHAMMED? I READ HIS HISTORY, AND I AM SURPRISED PEOPLE WANT TO DIE FOR A MURDERER LIKE HIM. STRANGE WORLD.

  • Camillus 9 years ago

    the Pope is just spot on. the media commentators in Ghana must be reminded of this simply task. Freedom of speech has limits. Period!!!!

  • WOFA WOHOO 9 years ago

    For GHANA to remain peaceful tilltyhe end of time and boy oh boy,big PRAYERS for our beautiful BLACK STARS to win the AFRICAN CUP 2015 amin this is our time since 1982

  • Pround pepeni. 9 years ago

    THIS POPE IS THE FIRST REAL SAINT. HE IS HONEST. MUCH AS I DON'T AGREE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE SHOT FOR WHAT THEY DID TO THE PROPHET. THEY SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT FREEDOM HAS LIMITS. THE MAGAZINE COULD HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT HAVING ...
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  • Benash 9 years ago

    I am in tune with the Pope too. There's a saying that "Actions and Reactions are equal but opposite in direction." Once you make it a point to provoke or push someone against the wall, then know that they might react in a way ...
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  • D-m-N 9 years ago

    Pope you are really a leader God bless you all the time.

  • ANABA 9 years ago

    BRILLIANT POPE!I AGREE WITH YOU FULLY

  • Eno 9 years ago

    I am really happy for the comment of the Pope, we must and should have freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to insult, curse or do something to hurt each other. We use this freedom of this and freedom of that to ...
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  • Rust 9 years ago

    Pope l thank you for your wise statement. No one who truly believe in God will ridicule other peoples faith. I however NEVER support killing in the name of religion. Why can't we live in peace with one another respecting ever ...
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  • B. A. 9 years ago

    What are people talking about? I have not heard of anyone defaming, humiliating, insulting any religion. But what I know is people not able to reason as human beings!!!! Just within the week book haram have killed thousands o ...
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  • WOFA WOHOO 9 years ago

    And see how crazy this people are boko haram and others.They are devil worshippers not of GOD,The prophet preached peace,love and care for our neibours not to kill them,which is a big HARAM in Islam

  • IBRAHIM 9 years ago

    HE WAS A MURDERER HIMSELF!

  • Annorwuo 9 years ago

    Objectivity that is found wanting in many Ghanaians,including some Catholic Clergy,in this country. I hope these people heard the Holy Father loud and clear. And I am not really surprised,because of the Pope`s background and ...
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  • ISMAIL 9 years ago

    You Nailed it

  • dennis awah 9 years ago

    This monkey is delusional! is he serious when he says no one should "kill in the name of God,"????? then what was the crusades about? 400 years of pure barbarity in the name of god, launched and supported by the catholic chur ...
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  • Bertram 9 years ago

    Wow 400 hundred years ago.

  • dennis awah 9 years ago

    bertram, the crusades lasted aperiod of about 400 years ( on and off). and if u ridicule what happened several centuries ago, why do you care about a jewish carpenter who claimed to be god that might have lived 2000 years ago ...
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  • GIDEON ATONGO 9 years ago

    The crusades were the cure to the muslim savages who went about killing, raping, looting and burning down churches in Asia and Europe. Our greatest pride in history as christians are the crusades. Maybe another series of crus ...
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  • me 9 years ago

    @gideon,believe u have problem.as long as stupid people like u exist to make stupid comment about others and yet cannot defend ur own well,others will continue to suffer.your fellow christians r still raping in the name of pe ...
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  • dennis awah 9 years ago

    Gideon Atongo, your pride in the crusades is so amazing i have to ask you this question!!! do you have the same pride when you hear the child molestation cases that have dogged the catholic church for well over two decades no ...
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  • dennis awah 9 years ago

    Gideon, you are a perfect christian - an intolerant, prejudiced, racist person who believes the universal god chooses people based on religion? if the crusades are christianity's greatest pride then Adolf Hitler is a God and ...
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  • B. A. 9 years ago

    400 hundred years ago! Get over it already. We are in 2015. We should know better.

  • A. B. 9 years ago

    400 hundred years ago! Get over it already. We are in 2015. We should know better.

  • OT 9 years ago

    Good Nana yaw. with Christians vengeance is the Lord's our God but with them hmmmm

  • JB Mann 9 years ago

    When I saw a bunch of idiotic baldheads (yes, I'm exercising my freedom of speech) marching and crying 'Je suis Charlie', I asked myself where have their wisom hidden? And how many of them marched 'Je suis Palestine' when Isr ...
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  • EFO KOKU 9 years ago

    Are you serious? Some sympathisers of Palestine talk as if these Palestinians are some innocent school boys sitting quietly and Israel from nowhere attacks and kills them. Read more about the Palestine Israel conflict before ...
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  • OT 9 years ago

    true Christians do not kill because they believe that vengeance is the Lord's

  • chek well 9 years ago

    which people ordered the attack in Iraq and ,Afghanistan killed maimed and raped? say Americans led by President Bush is he Muslim? so let us obey each others faith stop the blame game. The Pope is right.

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    The Pope is right on this matter. The Frernch government and its people are supporting the wrong horse. The paper and its staff knew that their actions which they deem satire are offensive to Muslims. Charlie is not about fre ...
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  • Okpovo 9 years ago

    Its about Religious tolerance.
    What Islam doesn't know is tolerance.
    Christian churches are being bombed indiscriminately by followers of Mohammad all over the world. People are being executed for marrying Christians. Is th ...
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  • chek well 9 years ago

    Israelites are not Christians . they don't bombarded Gaza strip again the americans were not in Libya. tell me if these people are truely not christians. Islam is not a so called peaceful religion. is Christianity a region f ...
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  • IBRAHIM 9 years ago

    ISLAM MAKES DEVILS OUT OF MEN! THEY HATE. THERE IS TROUBLE, HOOLIGANISM IN THEIR CAMP. DANGEROUS RELIGION.

  • chek well 9 years ago

    @ okpovo do the israelites not Christians becos they didn't bombarded Gaza strip again the americans were not in Libya. tell me if these people are truely not christians. Islam is not a so called peaceful religion. is Ch ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Criticize what one perceives to be wrongs carried out or practiced by muslims, but do not resort to the infantile act of mocking the person Muslims consider to be their prophet. Charlie Hebdo is not about freedom of expressio ...
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  • big joe 9 years ago

    The first verse to be revealed was read accordg to the quran.meanwhile there was no quran b then only the bible. The secret is that they stole information in bible changing others and presenting them as the truth from Allah. ...
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  • chemistry 9 years ago

    Mr big Joe what is the name of Jesus?

  • Namjia 9 years ago

    We must all learn to live in peace respecting each other religion.