He starts october twenty seventh w. News from berlin the police have arrested a man in the u. S. In connection with a syrian. Official. Into custody near Miami Florida the arrest comes after a suspicious package turned up in new york also addressed to a prominent critic of president bush from our correspondent also coming up. A German National on terrorism. Six years behind bars for membership in a Kurdish Militia his family says he was in turkey on
a hiking trip. Says raise the kids from turkish president. Irish Voters Decide whether time on the religious Blasphemy Law is known for a goal. That even the Catholic Church says is obsolete. I am glad you could join us shortly were expecting President Trump to speak on suspicious packages in the u. S. But police there have detained a suspect in connection with a series of explosive packages sent to high profile public figure investigators in the south and state of florida apprehended a man believed to be in his fiftys and seized. This whit
not everyone agrees. the islamic cultural center things throwing out the blasphemy class will threaten the freedom of all irish people. we have a wide diversity of various communities residing in. this kind of. reference in our legislation is not to defend religion but it is to defend respect among people of all face and people of no face still it looks likely that my conviction and his group will finally get their way recent polls show that just twenty percent of likely voters i favor of keeping audience blasphemy law. for more let s bring in religious affairs analyst martin gak who joins us here in the studio good morning martin good morning auntie blasphemy laws this really sounds like a thing of the past is this just an irish phenomenon no it s not actually it s not a thing of the past at all i mean it s something that you see across europe germany
a criminal offense the need to dublin that has been fighting the paragraph and islands constitution for years. he thinks it should have been removed a long time ago. it s a mediæval crime it s been added into our constitution in nineteen thirty seven when i was a very catholic country. and it was programmed into our laws just ten years ago so it s a mess for any number of reasons and the sooner that we get rid of it the better. but since the law was implemented no one has ever been convicted of blasphemy even the catholic church called the law or data. an audience church in dublin sees one simple reason for that. there s no need for such a law called doesn t need to god is not mocked. not everyone agrees. of the islamic cultural center things throwing out the blasphemy class will threaten the freedom of all irish people. we have
not everyone agrees. the islamic cultural center thinks throwing out the blasphemy class will threaten the freedom of all people. we have a wide diversity of various communities residing in our land this kind of. referencing in our legislation is not to defend religion but it is to defend respect among people of all faiths and people of no face still it looks likely that my community and his group will finally get their way recent polls show that just twenty percent of likely voters i m favor of keeping islands blasphemy laws. and from what i have a. religious to fans and in this modern doco welcome martin. rarely talk about blasphemy laws in europe is i would want the only countries which has them while