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| June 27, 2010 | European Union Agency takes note of Hindus' concern on religious equality in Malta | |
Nevada (US): The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
(FRA) has taken note of Hindus' concern about equality of religions in Malta. In a response to the communiqué of Bhavna Shinde of Forum for Hindu Awakening,
FRA wrote: Thank you very much for drawing our attention to the Maltese Criminal
Code, which you report as making one liable to imprisonment up to 6 months for
publicly vilifying "Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion", while committing such
an act against "any cult tolerated by law" makes one liable to imprisonment only
up to 3 months. The Fundamental Rights Agency does investigate issues such as
the ones you mentioned, as part of our data collection. We have taken note of
your concern and, if applicable, we will report in next year's annual report.
On this issue, Hindus recently approached various bodies of European Union (EU),
Council of Europe, European Parliament; European and Malta Ombudsman; Malta President
and other government offices; and even Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malta urging
them to "ensure that Malta treats all religions and denominations equally in front
of the law". Meanwhile, in the recent past, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed and Rabbi
Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in USA
, in a statement on this issue, said that it seemed to imply that except Roman
Catholic, other religions and denominations including Hinduism and Judaism were
just one of the cults in the eyes of Malta. |
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