Just a few days back, Friday was declared ‘Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool’ by our government and now the same anger is directed towards the Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour’s announcement of bounty for killing the anti-Islam US film-maker. This is not the first time that the Muslim world has witnessed such vicious anti-Islam propagandas and blasphemous material yet the leaderships has so far
By: HASSAN MUNIR Before the Holocaust, ‘freedom of speech’ was misused. Cartoons dehumanising Jews were published along with a hate campaign resulting in the worst massacre killing millions of Jews. Let’s face it. This excuse of freedom of speech, just like the excuse of killing in the name of God, will be misused time and again to spread hatred, fear
The YouTube ban in Pakistan entered into its third week yesterday. Government had issued orders last month to impose a blanket ban on the video sharing website in response to a blasphemous, sacrilegious video that caused outrage and indignation among Muslims. Reportedly, this decision was taken after Google Inc., the parent company of YouTube, refused to take down the blasphemous
By: N. Elahi Ever since the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten committed the temerity to publish caricatures of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in 2005 and defended it on the basis of the right of freedom of expression, the inviolability of this right has come under fire. It has become divisive and disputed. No doubt the perennial parameters of freedom of expression are too
There has to be a limit to senselessness. After all, human beings have been gifted with the capacity to reason and think. But we saw this ability vanish completely on Friday, as destruction struck everywhere. It is not known why a decision was made by the mobs to attack cinemas. Two were burnt down in Peshawar, while at least five
By: Bina Shah Is the anti-Muslim video, Innocence of Muslims, an issue of free speech or hate speech? That’s the question foremost on my mind as I think back to a weekend of madness, in which protestors against the film ran wild in the streets of Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore, destroying public and private property and committing mayhem that was
ISLAMABAD: More than 50 per cent journalists from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have received threats of various kinds during last year while at least 33 per cent of the tribal journalists have faced threats of assault in line of duty. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 87 percent of journalists surveyed have termed militants and security forces as the biggest threats they
By: AYAANA MALIK The Afghan government has banned Pakistani newspapers, which clearly exemplifies the sentiments of the US-backed Afghan government, while the criticism arising from within the Afghan community for such an approach shows that the people do not view the curb as a sensible step. In fact, there is a call for dialogue between the two nations by the
By: HUMAIRA KANWAL PEOPLE are abusing the movie’s team and advising each other over cell phones and online social networks to share those abusing remarks to register their protest. I am not convinced. I think propagation of a good act is a healthy activity but propagation of a bad act is negative. I believe that respect and dignity of the
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