Living in USA

[cherryontop]

Re: Living in USA

@psyah

Peace cherryontop

What you say is true. But that is the problem with man made laws. They create problems. Hate speech may not be a US recognised crime, but it is a moral crime. Hate speech is prevented in the work place and schools, I’m sure, within the US. My approach to this discussion is to realise the inconsistency. There are levels of censorship that are in the US media. Speech is not free really. What would be the fate if an organisation set-up in the US campaigning for Islamic Shari’ah to be established in the US? The truth of “freedom” is that the populous are coached to think a certain way … and 99% of the time that coaching ensures that the people will not think out of the box that was created for them …

Consider a fruit seller he has all the different types of apples and he sells on the basis that you are free to choose … If someone comes along and asks for an orange, he will not be able to comply, rather the people who come to his stall will not know about oranges they will be unaware that oranges exist. To them all the fruit in the world are represented by the variety of apples he has in his stall.

Yes hate speech is not a crime - but it should be. The US law makers have got it wrong. It is a law in other Western countries, not that they are necessarily any better. The western ideals have rid people of what they used to hold sacred. No longer are even parents considered sacred property in the US. Cartoons (mind altering) such as the Simpsons make it seem funny to insult parents … There is no boundary to retaliate … nothing is sacred anymore - on top of that Muslims will be hesitant to stoop to that low. We cannot go against our faith and insult another person’s religion, our religion prevents us from that. So how do we react to being insulted? We can indeed ignore it. We can use it as an opportunity to educate or be even nicer. Some of us can do that … I don’t however blame the ignorant people among us from behaving ignorantly. They are merely reacting in the way they can … it may be out of their control. It may be a ruse as well … I dunno. The US aught to be consistent with their policies, or accept that some of their people will become under threat from the root causes of actions of some of their own people.

An organization can very much campaign for Shariah laws but they cannot be arrested or detained. Of course the campaign won’t go very far because US law is uniform and pertains to everyone equally. The Jews can campaign for their Halakha law as well but that too won’t go very far.

I can’t believe how much people like to bash the US. TLK is right. Muslims enjoy the most freedom here as compared to any other nation in the world. We don’t have to deal with the banning of minarets, publishing of cartoons mocking our Prophet (p.b.u.h) and being scrutinized for what we wear. Moreover all the aforementioned are **state acts!! **This was just some nobody who already had a criminal record and wanted to cause unrest amongst the Muslims yet people are bashing the US. It’s unbelievable. Just shows people of our faith tend to have sheep mentality. Causes that actually require attention and are worthy of protests are ignored and acts that should just be condemned and ignored are given so much attention.