A protest is going to be held in Moscow against free speech. 100,000 people are planning to attend in support of the idea that the speech which offends religion should be illegal.
This is especially hilarious in Russia where, for the obvious historical reasons, nobody is religious. Of course, since nobody in the country knows much about any religion, it will be very easy to ban pretty much any kind of speech as offensive to some vaguely religious sentiments.
The situation where 100,000 of atheists are marching to ban free speech on religious grounds is seriously funny.
As further reading, I want to recommend to you the most brilliant post anybody has written in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Read until the very end. It’s really powerful.
Clarissa's Blog 
I had to click to see who was the author of such a brilliant post.
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I think you might actually know the author. 🙂
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I have a big gaping, open mouth. Can someone cut me off at the neck?
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I will just put this here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/17/us-france-shooting-niger-idUSKBN0KQ0BP20150117
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Ay yay yay! What do you think? Is this going to be Africa’s future? What can be done to help the continent move forward?
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I certainly hope not. But, the Sahel belt dividing the Muslim North from the Christian South accross Mali, Niger, Chad, northern Nigeria, CAR, Chad, and Sudan seems to be undergoing a revival of sectarian conflict laid over other issues.
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Hasn’t there been something of a revival of religion in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, though?
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Yes, there’s been a revival and now a whole 2% of Russians practice. That’s a spike compared to what there’d been before, but still, 2% is such a tiny number (and it isn’t growing) that any discussion of religion being relevant to Russia is very bizarre. Religious practice was given up for generations. There is no coming back from that.
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