I fully understand people have their rights to believe in something. But people can either believe in “rightous” or “evil” political ideas or “religion”. When two group of people believing in different standards of moral, and when they all believe the other group is wrong, there is no way for them to sit down and talk. Just like this event called “Muhammad cartoons controversy” on Wikipedia, there are so many such “controversies” around the world. I do not want to take side right now, however I find this person has a good point:
Other Arabs and Muslims have expressed their condemnation of the cartoons: “In (the West) it is considered freedom of speech if they insult Islam and Muslims,” Mohammed al-Shaibani, a columnist, wrote in Kuwait’s Al-Qabas daily Monday. “But such freedom becomes racism and a breach of human rights and anti-Semitism if Arabs and Muslims criticize their religion and religious laws.
I feel that this is the failure of the so called western standard of human rights, freedom of speech and such. It seems they always have freedom of speech, so that they can say whatever they want about other countries and culture. However the other countries’ opinion is terrorism. Just like the Chinese sensorship of the internet is a violation of human rights and freedom of speech, while Bush’s evasdrop is just a minor problem with the holy “nation security” in mind.
Whatever… those western people cannot understand what is double standard ‘cos they are always right so they can set whatever standards they want.
强权就是公理。