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19 July, 2004
19 July 2004
The lighter side of Britain's ban on religious hate-mongering: The U.K.'s proposed legislation to make inciting religious hatred a crime punishable by imprisonment continues to draw criticism from free-speech advocates, including "Mr. Bean" star Rowan Atkinson. Atkinson claims that films lampooning religious figures, like Monty Python's hit movie "Life of Brian" (about a fictitious neighbor of Jesus Christ who is mistaken for the Messiah) could not be made under the proposed law. Read more of Al Webb's Washington Times report.

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