People in this primitive, backward land need to grow some spine, self-confidence and grow up...going ballistic at he slghtest perceived slight is nothing short of childishness and immaturity.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall. Those who abuse the freedom of speech will eventually be ignored and forgotten. What makes them memorable and stagnant in the mind are violent reactions of the kind that happened in Paris. This only ensures that those who offend get more prominence than those who object. At least as a strategy if not ethically, violence should not be resorted to in a bid to curb freedom of speech.
Re: Repercussions
by ashish tiwari on Jan 11, 2015 06:23 AM
Santa you have insulted the right of people who believe in free speech..but we probably we are not infected and blinded by jehadi mentality to deliver you to the expected result.
Re: mr Ninsan
by Ravi Sinha on Jan 10, 2015 10:40 PM
I agree with you.People justify the right to freedom of expression when it amounts to use derogatory remarks about Hindu religion or Indian Culture but the moment it is about Islam or Christianity or Comrades then the rules become different.Thousand can be massacred.In my opinion the Left leaning pseudo-intellectuals are the worst offenders for any faith but they think that what they say or do is the ultimate truth. Ravi Sinha
Re: press freedon
by Inzy Bhai on Jan 11, 2015 08:47 AM
Who has coined the term newstraders? The butcher of Gujarat. Why are you quoting him? He is a trader of all that is evil, despicable & deserving of the highest condemnation.
Right to freedom of speech and expression, and to practise ones religion or, more importantly, the Right to Life, can not be taken to mean a right applicable to one section of society or one community only, and not another. It should not be taken to mean an unfettered right with no responsibility on the person exercising it, either. Else those who gunned down the Charlie Hebdo journalists could very well have retorted that they, too, were exercising their right to freedom of expression in retaliation. Every right comes with a written or unspoken responsibility or should, anyway, as in the case of Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression. Right to freedom of speech and expression can not be used by the State and the media to instigate wars, communal hatred and genocide as we have been only too familiar with under both Congress and BJP-led regimes (particularly in India’s border states, as well as Delhi and Karnataka), which seem to have much more in common than only policies. A classic example of State-media partnership in such crimes is the thirty-year-old pending case of a national celebrity misusing his popularity, status, right to freedom of speech, and the national media, to instigate the 84 Massacre that wiped out thousands of members of the Sikh community. That same man today is being feted by the media, the Centre and Gujarat government, as a Mr Green & Clean, prior to the India visit of the President of the United States.
Nobody has right to insult any religion in the name of right to freedom of expression. There is a limitation of freedom of expression in the civilised society.
