Freedom of Speech not a Good Excuse to "Offend Religions"

The debate around the sacrilegious American Film should not be limited to Freedom of Speech rather one should dig a bit deeper to explore the centuries-old well-entrenched hatred towards Islam. Islamophobia is fact today and need serious discussion. To hate otherwise competitive religion by adherents of some other religions is not a new phenomenon.

"It is no longer a secret to anyone that anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim sides, which have persisted to plant the seeds of sedition and sectarian charge, especially between Muslims and Christians, in recent times, have taken advantage of the principle of the freedom of speech to publish obscenities and fabricate lies and cheap insinuations against Islam and the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him." Within this context, we find it incumbent to differentiate between freedom of speech and offending others. As much as freedom of speech is sacred and guarded by democratic states, as much as it should be responsible freedom that respects the faiths of others and religious symbols, distancing itself from the approach of offending others and shunning the methods of cursing and abuse, for the ongoing insults have no connection with the freedom of speech. Rather, they are a satanic plant from the fruits of the school of the Goebbels demagoguery.

To be exact, why do western and US laws include texts that deter and hold accountable all who question the "Jewish holocaust" from near or far? Within this context, we would remind of what French intellectual Garaudy was subjected to, in terms of oppression and injustice, because he questioned the numbers of the "holocaust" in his book "The Zionist Legends," and what other European historians and intellectuals were subjected to. This clearly means that the western states, and the United States in particular, are dishonest when they claim that they cannot hold accountable, or rather, stop the campaign of hatred against Islam and the Prophet of Islam using the pretext of "freedom of speech," when they are legislating laws that prohibit and hold accountable all those who stand up to Jews and Zionism and question the numbers of the "holocaust." (Courtesy Al Dastur Jordan)