Friday, July 16, 2010

Russian Police Probe Orthodoxy or Death T-Shirts

Police probe "Orthodoxy or death!" t-shirts While anti-religious artists are being persecuted, police are investigating Christian t-shirts depicting a skull captioned "Orthodoxy or death!" on suspicions of hate crime, Kommersant reports.

Prosecutors are demanding to ban the t-shirts on grounds that they incite religious hatred. But the Union of Orthodox Icon-bearers, which has rallied against gay parades and publicly burned Harry Potter books, says they never meant to incite hatred.

A spokesperson for the Moscow Patriarchate doesn't see anything offensive in the t-shirts, telling Kommersant that they reflect the wearer's "personal position."

http://www.mn.ru/news/20100715/187933113.html
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