Christians guilty of sedition for giving Chick tracts to Muslims
A Singapore court has convicted a Christian couple for handing out a particular brand of religious tracts to Muslims. The pair could be fined or even imprisoned.
A Singapore court Thursday has found a Christian couple guilty for distributing seditious and objectionable publications to Muslims, media reports said. Between March and December 2007, Ong Kian Cheong, 50, and his wife, Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, 46, had distributed two booklets by US publisher and comic author Jack Chick, which according to the judge could spark ill-will or hostility between Christians and Muslims.
Never mind offending Muslims, Jack Chick tracts have generated ill-will and hostility among Christians. His semi-informed and provocative (to put it mildly) comic diatribes against Catholicism, evolution, infant baptism, rock music, contemporary Bible translations, Harry Potter, etc., are infamous.
But I don’t think handing them out warrants a jail term.
I avidly read the Harry Potter books and only had to shudder occasionally. One notable shudder was when Harry said to Voldemort “have some remorse”. So 21st C.
Nevertheless, classic Good vs Evil and not particularly anti-Christian. Jack Chick needs to get out more.
Not worth a jail term, though.
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None of the churches in Singapore have responded to this very unusual step on the part of the government to arrest and charge this couple for sedition. Its sets a dangerous precedent.
I’ll be very surprised if they are sentenced to jail. they’ll probably be fined.