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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Spanish musician prosecuted for blasphemy
Ismael Valladolid Torres, a Madrid-based New Humanist reader who writes his own Spanish humanist blog, "La media hostia" (roughly translated, it means "Half a wafer"), got in touch to inform me about the prosecution for blasphemy of Javier Krahe (pictured), a well-known Spanish singer-songwriter and artist. Naturally, the story sounded of interest to us, so I asked Ismael to fill me in, as there is little online about it in English. Here's his account:Javier Krahe is one of the most popular left wing singer-songwriters in Spain, but he also likes to express himself in other artistic ways.There's a Facebook group in support of Krahe, although you'll need to be able to read Spanish to know exactly what you're joining. It seems like a fascinating and worrying story, and I'll be asking Ismael to keep us up to date from Spain. It's interesting to see that, following the attention Ireland attracted this year with the introduction of blasphemy legislation, such laws are posing problems elsewhere in Europe. I've often wondered how European human rights legislation might conlifct with such archaic laws - for instance, I always figured the British blasphemy law was defunct even before it's removal, as a prosecution wouldn't stand up in light of human rights legislation. If anyone has any informed opinions on this, I'd be fascinated to hear them.
In 1978 he recorded this funny and admittedly blasphemous clip called "Cooking Christ". You can see how Christ is cut up, spread with butter and put into the oven, before getting out on the third day. A delicious dish!
On 15 December 2004, Spanish channel Canal+ showed the clip as a part of an interview with Krahe. According to right wing site HazteOir, Canal+ received more than 10,000 letters protesting about the broadcast. Now the Thomas More Law Studies Center has presented a criminal prosecution stating that broadcasting such material goes against Article 525 of the Spanish Penal Code, which punishes offending religious beliefs. The court now asks Krahe to pay €192,000, and the TV channel to pay €144.000.
In the past, many Spanish artists have had to leave their country in order to make use of freedom of expression, from Luis Buñuel to Pablo Picasso and others. It's amazing that more than half a century later, things in this country haven't changed.
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