Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Freedom to.... go to jail?

I would bother to explain why I havn't been around for a while but since no one reads my blog anyway I don't really have anyone to apologise to. Its strange how much freedom has come to mean in the world today. Freedom of speech is a right that people all over the world have fought for and fight even harder to protect and keep. In a country where the constitution supposedly allows people the right to express their opinion, why is it that whenever they do they either end up in jail or disappear altogether. In general the rule for preventing or censoring freedom of speech is where it is likely to incite violence or under the Emergency Laws is a threat to national security what I can't understand and not mentioning any names because I am sure you all know who I mean, is how a blogger can get four years for defaming religion. In the first place it seems wierd to me that anyone could judge what defamation of religion is except God. Secondly, one of the realities of freedom of speech is that some opinions that not everyone likes are likely to come out because people have the freedom to express themselves. Simply faith needs to be put into society to be able to understand and make informed decisions based on the information they are given. Even more important is the fact that freedom protects people from having religion forced upon them if one person does not believe in that religion why shouldn't they be allowed to express that opinion. Yes some people will be up in arms about the sataners defaming their religion, but if you want freedom you have to go all the way. What makes it so ridiculous to me is the fact that any true believer of any religion would not be shaken for a second by any comments that anyone said about their religion. I am a Muslim and have nothing against Muslims at all but I have to wonder why none of the sheikhs who sit on TV defaming christianity everyday never end up on trial for defamation of religion. Does that mean it only applies to Islam and its a different standard for all other religions? Are other religions less? For a country that claims to be secular, its confusing enough that our constitution tells us the main source of law is Islam..........if your confused me to. So are we secular or Islamic? and will that make a difference or will our freedom send us to jail secular or Islamic?

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