Monday, February 13, 2006

Freedom of speech vs maturity

Those who are not mature enough to handle responsibilities that comes with freedom of speech should not be given the right to do so. If Denmark's government has no control of the contents being published by the newspaper who ran the offensive caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, so be it. But they should make a stand of their own views of the Muslim world. At least it's politically correct to do so. The no comments attitude made it such that they feel that it is politically incorrect to say the same although they share the exact ideas of the newspaper.

To all those European governments who are protecting their 'rights' on freedom of speech, condemning the Muslims that they are impeding the right to voice their views freely, think again. The freedom of speech comes with responsibilties. If your people do not have enough knowledge but goes wrong bad mouthing the government, what will be the effect of such irresponsible behaviour? We are talking about tabloids here, who has the power of swaying the public easily. Anyway, being a tabloid or journalist doesn't give you the right to denounce other religion. If they did not know the implications of such caricatures, just apologize and learn. If they do, I judge their professionalism in handling such issues.