Re: Muslims are MORE free to speak their mind in Pakistan then they are in US
Gosh that seems to be working out well. The US State Department human Rights Report has basicly read the same way since it started 15 years ago.
What we are failing to comprehend is that pictures from Abu Graib were shocking, and that is a mechanism for change in free societies, a free press is a big part of that. What is that same mechanism of change in a country run by a dictator? Not just Pakistan, 80% of the Muslim world run by dictators or unelected leaders. And even when they are elected, often the elections are a sham, or it is decades before the next election is scheduled.
I still have to laugh at the amusement factor here when someone "catches" the US doing something wrong? If all of that energy were redirected at the leaders of the Muslim world, things just might improve.
I guess if we were to only have some video evidence of conditions in Pakistani prisons, we could put it on YouTube or something for the whole world to see. No wait.....
Our media is free that is why the media was showing the lawyer's protests 24 hours a day live on TV !!!! That is why all the riots, protest, rallyies are shown on TV!!!! That is why musharraf had to come on live TV and apologize to TV anchors !!!
YOu have never seen a Pakistani TV channel in your life and that is why you are making these statements.