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Latest post on 25 January 2015 - 18:36

Thankfully here in the UAE hate against anyone is dealt with. In other countries it's called freedom of speech. Where is this place that has freedom of speech you speak of? France, USA, UK and all EU have controlled news, people are dealt with as radicals if they speak outside the norm, people are convicted for speaking their minds and accused of being spies for releasing the truth about the government or company. The only difference here is that everything is controlled where the crime or riots are not in your face. Actually Kippling.. when it comes to the UK, you describe a country that I don't recognise. The UK: 1) luckily has very specific laws which deal with stopping hatred and incitement to violence based on gender, sexual orientation, race and religion. 2) has laws dealing with the releasing information which could very well put us the public in danger (and which I am very comfortable about them enforcing it in these troubled times) 3) has specific laws protecting whistle blowers in the cases of business and government where the information being released is in the public interest... Please don't confuse freedom of speech with inciting hatred and violence... the two are and remain very different issues. The former is what we all aspire to in a free society... and luckily we have laws to protect us all from the later. (and you are right - many countries could learn from BOTH these concepts) From what you have written above, it sounds like you are putting the UK in the same club as North Korea! edited by rubyslippers on 25/01/2015 Laws can be in place anywhere, but Europe especially is a place where everybody feels they can just insult whoever they want. It's all very selective. My religion can be ridiculed anywhere at anytime, but any word about other groups are swiftly dealt with. So UAE has things sorted out a lot better. Nobody here can just spew hate, it is not accepted and people don't get away with it. Maroosh, I note that you are addressing your comments to "Europe".. and I feel that is unfair in the same way that you can't lump all of the "Middle East" countries in the same bucket. I am uncomfortable speaking for on the topic of the whole of Europe but am very comfortable about speaking about the UK.... (and in the spirit of free speech, please anyone feel free to disagree) The UK is a place where EVERYONE has the right to express themselves through free speech. These exact rights and privileges allows for the freedom of residents to practice any religion, allows for dissent of values, beliefs, the right to hold government to account through voting, (even setting up your own political party if you are so inclined!) Limiting speech limits many of these advances. Free speech includes others disagreeing with MY religion, political views, marital arrangements, number of children, working arrangements... pretty much anything and please believe me that they do, and often in insulting and rude terms. However I believe that this should still be available to ALL residents.. irrespective of where they come from and what they believe. The right to free speech is something that was very hard fought for in WW2 and is something that the Nazi's tried very hard to stamp out. Personally don't want to experience that world. Where you and I absolutely agree, and what is explicitly NOT allowed by law, is incitement to violence and hatred in any form. THAT is an ongoing problem in my opinion rather than the issues of free speech. When and if these laws are broken, (and they are) it is for the courts to decide and to impose suitably harsh punishment (with my full support I have to add). In my experience that is what happens. THAT is what protects us all. This is explicitly different to freedom of speech As I previously posted.. many countries could learn from the UK's examples.

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