Danish court fines Iranian-born lady for racism while writing against Islam

Copenhagen: A high court in Denmark fined a Danish-Iranian artist, Firoozeh Bazrafkan, of 5,000 kroner after she was found guilty of racism while making remarks against Islam and the Muslims.
She was charged by the police of violating anti-racism legislationafter publishing a blog entry in infamous newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in December 2011, in which she had stated, “I am very convinced that Muslim men around the world rape, abuse and kill their daughters. This is, according to my understanding as a Danish-Iranian, due to a defective and inhumane culture – if you can even call it a culture at all. But you can say, I think, that it is a defective and inhumane religion whose textbook, the Koran, is more immoral, deplorable and crazy than manuals of the two other global religions combined.”
An artist with a critical focus on Iran’s Islamic regime and religion in general, Bazrafkan argues in an interview that Danish anti-racism legislation should not apply to the critique of religion.
She said that she is not sorry for writing the blog in the newspaper but she is disappointed and angry because she should have the right to write and say what she wants. Her blog in the newspaper didn’t threaten anyone, it was a criticism of Islamic codes.

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