Situations in which feelings of believers are insulted require special attention and cannot be ignored, State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy said.
“I want to caution against another danger: one cannot not take into account the opinion of people who are insulted by this or that action on faith,” Tolstoy said at a parliamentary hearing in the State Duma on January 25.
“Insults based on faith are unacceptable. It’s one of the worst sins, it’s one of the hardest situations, and our society now doesn’t now know a way out because neither the authorities nor society can understand how goto behave in such a situation,” he said.
“I am now talking not only about the conflict over the scandalous film ‘Matilda,’ but also about other situations to which we, unfortunately, have not found a clear answer today,” Tolstoy said.
The search for an answer “is also our common task, because without that it is impossible to broadcast our unique experience of the co-existence of different religions in one country, different ethnicities, people with different philosophies, who are working for the good of our common great Russia,” he said.
