Freedom of speech & Western hypocrisy.

[arshad5]

Re: Freedom of speech & Western hypocrisy.

@Med911

The govt can not do anything… This is not a dictatorship. You might see hypocrisy in it, but the US govt does not have such authority. You have to be reasonable here.
The social cohesion you see in not allowing people to openly criticize religion, is not so in the opinion of others. It is a false cohesion, an artificial cohesion which is bound to collapse under its own weight. Not being allowed to speak your mind OPENLY, allows the danger of making a society stagnant. Obvious wrongs are allowed to fester. People commit crimes in the guise of this holy cow that is religion and no one can challenge them because doing so risks challenging that which is considered sacred. Worse it creates a society in which people are encouraged to not think, to believe and regurgitate.
Hence the reason why so many Pakistanis are unable to reconcile their revulsion for the crimes of the Taliban, and their supposed Islamic credentials.

There is more hypocrisy in a state which forces a particular belief system, then one that allows people to think for themselves.

Regress and progress are relative terms. It depends on where you stand. To those living in the past, a society regressing 100 years is making progress, but to those looking to the future, society going anywhere other then forward is going to be regressive.

The government can and should do something. There is no absolute freedom of speech or expression. This freedom is qualified, even in the U.S. The people that wanted to protest at the funerals of the soldiers were banned and laws were enacted to stop them protesting at the funerals. Denying the holocaust is a crime in some countries. There is nothing wrong with trying to integrate the various strands of society. Having respect for each other is not stagnating but strengthening the nation. If this was happening in any other country, where some people were trying to offend, ridicule and upset their own citizens than we all would expect that government to take action.