FREEDOM OF SPEECH

The human right of how they expressing their thought have become an issue since past centuries ago. When everyone wants to share what they know and opinion, they seek an opportunity to tell other people. When the medium he or she use for sending the message either appropriate or not, others may question it. According to the statement taken from Wikipedia.org, the right to freedom of speech is recognized as a human right taken From Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Where the right stated that the right to freedom of speech as the “right to hold opinions without interference, everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression”.

For example as in the past history, when the prophet Muhammad S.A.W. tried to delivered his message regarding the truth of Islamic religion. Many people felt threatened by his actions, since it can change their thought and belief that they hold from their ancestor. But in some cases, his relatives and people who are close to him can accept the message that the prophet Muhammad S.A.W and followed. This explains a lot because the message is appropriate to human natural right. But when many other peoples took it as negative, then the action was considered wrong.

In my situation that makes me more confuse is when some times in the past, I was using the Internet and the idea comes up. “How the people in Palestine makes their rocket launcher?” and I started to surf all material regarding on structure of the bomb in Metacafe.com. On one side I thought that I was right because I want to learn and add to my knowledge. On the other side tells that “Am I doing the right thing because it can violate the law some other country?” That means I had done something wrong, according to them.

If I were to put a line in the middle to distinguish which is right to follow the Freedom of Speech, I will at least violate a law or policy of a country. Actually what I want to do is just to gain knowledge about rocket launcher. It was not meant to practice making it. As such, the consequence maybe good or bad depends on the different views about it. Let me put a closer situation to the technology. Why when some of the citizens of Malaysia try to advice (tell) others using the blog in the internet about the Islamic law practiced in Malaysia are in a serious level, because the law are threaten by the political government (some of them) who have self interest but need to violate law. The citizen can be put down under ISA, because abusing the Freedom of Speech.

We have situation where the government tells the public to listen and tells the bad part of other side using the mainstream media (Television, Radio, etc). The situation is legal according to the civil law. This affects the governing system of Malaysia either directly or indirectly.

In my opinion actually there is no absolute freedom of speech. We have to set a fair and justify law where it refers to a legitimate source as example Quran, not because of religiously bias but it is proven of correctness and publicly accepted. The public just have to obey including me. It is hard and will takes a long time, but still can solve the problem even by partially.