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Expression of Islamophobia is not protected by human rights

31 Oct 2020313 Views0

MACSA follows the unrevealing of the incidences in France with great concern. It is bad enough that the Government of France has allowed Charlie Hebdo to incite prejudices and hatred towards Islam as a religion and towards Muslim communities that profess this peaceful religion. To further inflame the gravity of the situation, its President has blunderingly blamed Islam as “a religion in crisis all over the world” while defending Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures that meekly veil hate-speech as freedom of expression. While Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (UDHR) has proclaimed that freedom of speech is enjoyed by all but Article 1 itself stands to promote dignity and rights in the spirit of brotherhood. As such, any expression that undermines dignity and the spirit of brotherhood can...

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Liberal Fascists Camouflaged as Freedom Fighters

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22 Dec 2017267 Views0

Political correctness has revealed itself in the West to have been a liberal Trojan horse carrying a battalion of neo-Fascists in its belly, who emerge at the slightest perceived offence. They triumph at browbeating any and every differing opinion into silence. Not surprisingly, this Trojan horse has begun to appear in Malaysia over the last few years, using many of the same tactics adopted in the West. They promote “tolerance” for “alternative lifestyles” or for “marginalised people;” usually referring to homosexuals and transgender individuals. But this “tolerance” means, in practice, compelled speech (forcing people to use particular gender neutral pronouns, etc), suspension of legitimate debate (over definitions of gender, for example) by classifying it as “hate speech,” and g...