asaadfayyaz
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As you can imagine from subject line, I'm a citizen of Pakistan. For past many years I'v been feeling that absence of free speech is the root of most of the evils in my society. The biggest problem on the way to free speech is no doubt religion here. I'm not a total atheist myself, you can consider me a confused muslim. But I do think of my self a man of reason and believe in the beauty of logic and reasoning.
Back to the topic: I'm not sure but either the religion of Islam is very intolerent towards free speech from its core or the history of abuse of religion by the monarchy/establishment (religion + state mixture) has left no room for free speech/thinking in islam. For example one cannot openly discuss or debate the possibility that 'God does not exist' in public. Its not just the state or the law, its the mentality of our nation. They like censorships. And they want revenge when someone commit the 'crime' of free speech. Our school system is bound to preach the religion of Islam to the children of Muslim parents and therefore forced to challenge and negate the beautiful theories like evolution, bigbang etc. This process end up creating generation after generation of people with suppressed and injured reasoning and thinking.
It may be because of my strong religious background that I still think disrespecting religion, prophets or gods just for the fun of it should be considered in par with at least the crime of racism, and I'm still open to reason for the otherwise.
Please reply with words of advice, suggestions and criticism.
I beg my Pakistani brothers: Please don't think its least of your problem, No, this is why no institution in our country is working and this is how the state is controlling the people. Please discuss
Back to the topic: I'm not sure but either the religion of Islam is very intolerent towards free speech from its core or the history of abuse of religion by the monarchy/establishment (religion + state mixture) has left no room for free speech/thinking in islam. For example one cannot openly discuss or debate the possibility that 'God does not exist' in public. Its not just the state or the law, its the mentality of our nation. They like censorships. And they want revenge when someone commit the 'crime' of free speech. Our school system is bound to preach the religion of Islam to the children of Muslim parents and therefore forced to challenge and negate the beautiful theories like evolution, bigbang etc. This process end up creating generation after generation of people with suppressed and injured reasoning and thinking.
It may be because of my strong religious background that I still think disrespecting religion, prophets or gods just for the fun of it should be considered in par with at least the crime of racism, and I'm still open to reason for the otherwise.
Please reply with words of advice, suggestions and criticism.
I beg my Pakistani brothers: Please don't think its least of your problem, No, this is why no institution in our country is working and this is how the state is controlling the people. Please discuss