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Re: by jdaley on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:41AM (#6133981)
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has weighed in: "The insolent and impudent act by the young couple who insulted Islam showed that freedom of expression and irresponsible opinion can jeopardise the community"

Yet the Malaysian constitution includes "every citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression".

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Re: by newnewnew on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:27PM (#6135373)
The United States is also moving more and more to an offense-based model of disallowed speech despite having strong constitutional protections for free speech[1]. Free speech has never been terribly popular anywhere.

[1] http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/06/13/essay-critici...

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Re: by VladRussian2 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:08PM (#6134750)
It doesn't really matter whether constitution provides for basic human rights or not. In either case, human race is faced with the question of what to do when basic human rights of people are violated. In general i despise neocons, yet i completely understand their logic of interventionism (note: i don't mean in narrow military sense of Bush doctrine that it was dumbed down to)
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Re: by qstyk on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:40PM (#6135014)
Bush doctrine?
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