Addendum to “Freedom of Expression” ...

1. Hillary Clinton says the film insulting to Muslims
cannot be stopped because of freedom of
expression.

2. The French and Italian papers published photos
of a naked Duchess of Cambridge. Now a French
court has ordered the publishers to surrender all
the pictures to the royal couple and to stop
publishing them. The Italians are also going to do
the same.

3. So freedom of expression is selective, not to be
used against a countess but okay for the prophet
of the Muslims.

4. I know there are many hypocrites in the West
but this is the mother of all Western hypocrisy.

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1. Hilary Clinton defends the film which insults the
Prophet of the Muslims because of freedom of
expression, a part of human rights. I think
Western values have gone crazy. In the name of
human rights and free speech one can insult
anybody. What kind of human society will we have
if everyone can curse and denigrate everyone
else? There will be no peace either between
countries or religions or races or members of the
public anywhere.

2. How would one feel if someone comes up to
you and calls you “a bastard, the offspring of sex
between your mother and some man who is not
your legally wedded father.”

3. Well how would one feel? The Americans would
feel nothing because in their society this is
normal. Their mothers sleep around with just
about anybody. That is the norm, they would say.
So do their fathers. It is an expression of the
equality of the sexes.

4. Asians, and Muslims would feel insulted. They
would probably kill the persons who say such
things of their mothers. Free speech, yes. But
insulting speech, no! Certainly no Asian would like
to be called a bastard even as a joke.

5. It would seem that the liberal West believes
that free speech is licence to curse and insult
other people without limit.

6. They can enjoy this licence among themselves.
That’s okay. But they cannot insist that everyone
accept their coarseness and lack of manners. If
freedom is a part of human rights, not the rights
of the West alone, Asians must have their rights to
their own norms and code of morality. Otherwise
Western freedom would be about denying others
their freedom.

7. If that is what Western freedom is about then
how others react to Western freedom must be
accepted by the West as the expression of
freedom of these others.

8. Western values are not universal, no matter
what the Westerners claim or believe about their
values. Other people and Asians have their own
values. If the West believes that freedom must be
enjoyed by all, must be universal, then that
freedom must be extended to the values
subscribed by others.

9. If you don’t believe others should have
freedom to enjoy their own values then you do
not really believe in freedom as a part of human
rights. Of course certain events we are seeing
today seem to indicate that the West has
arrogated freedom to themselves only. The
freedom to kill people, including innocent people,
is obviously a part of Western freedom.

10. That would mean the West is more
authoritarian and undemocratic than the very
people they accuse of being authoritarian and
undemocratic.

11. It is about time that the West rethink their
beliefs in freedom. If you really believe that
freedom should be enjoyed by all, then respect
other peoples’ rights to their faiths, their values
and their freedoms.

12. I deplore the extremely violent reactions to
the film and killing of the American consul but I
fully understand that some people’s feelings are
stronger than some other people. In a free world
the strength of these people’s feelings is their
right. If there is such a thing as human rights then
there should also be respect for the sensitivities of
other people.

13. Otherwise stop talking about human rights
and certainly stop violently promoting these so-
called rights. You have no right to take the moral
high ground.

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