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SV News 24
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Friday 20 Dein 1583 CE
Blair moderates after meeting with Honarine Peltier


Today Blair has announced a moderation of policy after meeting with Honarine including a moderation of the PAAARE bill due to go through the Clan Assembly. The moderation comes after talks between the two national leaders about their relationship and criticism within Eskkya for The Alternatives governments ties with the Kingdom of Strathae. The moderation is to affect the social as well as legal aspects of the policies and bills.

The first major change announced is the part requiring a veil ban for Akhadist veil. While it will still be legal for individual public funded places to ban religious symbols it will no longer be compulsory to do so allowing places to set their own policy. However public funded places will be banned from requiring an Akhadic veil. The second major change is in the hate speech code, deportation will not be allowed to be the first option unless the person already has two offences on their criminal and anti-social behavior record already. However fines for hate speech will continue to rise to 18,000 Copars ,36,000 Copars and 72,000 Copars respectively for the 1st , 2nd and 3rd offences with deportation being compulsory on the third recorded offense on ones record.

The third major reform is that organisations supporting the reform of Akhadism in sphere of LGBT rights and womens rights will be funded to tackle any extremism in the religion. The government will work with good Akhadists to promote a "Strathaen values Akhadism" that meets Strathaen values of tolerance and equality and liberal values. The groups will be funded for activities working with the education system, youth and affected communities as well as in providing support systems for LGBT and women affected by Akhadist violence or forced marriage threats. One major change is all visa holders will be required to go to weekly classes on Strathaen Values for a full 5 years to integrate into the culture as opposed to 2 years at present. The changes have been touted as major reforms of her bill and agenda on dealing with the problem of Akhadist extremism. The new bill is to read as follows.

Protection Against Religious Extremism Act(PAARE))

Section 1
1.1: Immigration will henceforth onwards be banned from akhadist pluarity countries
1.2: Flights will henceforth be banned to and from Akhadist pluarity countries
1.3: All citizens on visas in the country are subject to conditions placed on new visas
1.4: Religious garments or symbols may be banned by the administrators in all public places or publicly funded places and subject to a fine if such bans are broken or may be allowed to eject the individual on such grounds.
1.5 :Upon any security services or polices request any person must unveil to allow for I.D
Section 2
2.1: All religious buildings and organisations are to be monitored for extremism
2.2:Any religious organisation promoting such extremist positions and statements shall be banned from operating,or banned from receiving any state funding,holding organised community events and having tax exempt status.
2.3 The government shall be required to fund programmes focused on reforming extremists, tackling religious extremism and promoting LGBT and womens Rights in religions. An Anti-Religious Extremism Fund shall be funded by a 2.5% tax on all donations to religious groups and shall be put towards community engagement, programmes to protect LGBT people and women from Religious extremists and to promote Strathaen values and a Strathaen Identity. A Community Engagement officer shall be present in every town or political subdivision.

Section 3
3.1: Security services shall set up a extremist preachers and religious leaders list of people who have said extremist statements.
3.2Any speakers or religious leaders on the list shall be banned from preaching in religious buildings or leading any religious building,event or holding down a public sector, security or education job.
3.3:Any person known to attend religious places where extremism is known to be preached are to be monitored by security services
3.4: Any person found guilty of hate crimes shall be stripped of citizenship automatically and fined upon third conviction if born abroad. The first 2 offences shall result in fines. The fines shall be set by the government every year.
3.5 Extremist statements or positions shall include sexist,homophobic or transphobic words or positions including in relation to gay marriage or women's rights.
3.6 The Religious Extremism Police of Strathae(REPOS) shall be set up to monitor Religious extremism ,investigate at random or upon tip-offs about religious building, organisations or preachers and administer the List of Religious Extremists.
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