freedom in Islamic countries?

Question

Don't people realize that the liberties they cherish so much, like continually insulting their own country and it's predominant religion, are ILLEGAL in muslim countries?

From the news today:

"ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Alexandria court convicted an Egyptian blogger on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced him to four years in jail over his writings on the Internet."

How can you read that and still think that somehow there is moral equivalence between the USA, where you have the freedom to insult your president and any religion you choose, and countries where that thing can get you sentenced to 4 years in a prison where you have no rights at all.

Under Sharia law, women are property. If they are raped, they can be killed for bringing dishonor on the family. That religion is the antithesis of everything Americans claim to love.

Why do people continue to give it respect?

There's some good sentiments in the posts. I'm all for reducing our dependence on oil and letting other people run their own countries, for example.

I'm just making the point that we have to be willing to say that there is such a thing as right and wrong. The freedoms that we recognize in our founding documents as being endowed in mankind by the Creator, are illegal in other countries.

I'm not saying we have to impose a democracy on the rest of the planet, but I am saying that we shouldn't be ashamed to say that America and its form of government and economics is better than some ( if not all ) other systems.

Answer 1

your question in and of itself is an oxymoron

Answer 2

So why don't we leave them alone to do their thing? Why must we butt into their business? They don't like or want democracy. The whole reason we are there or even have an iota of anything to do with them is O I L. The quicker we rid ourselves and help our allies to rid themselves of Arab oil the better it will be for all of us. The Arabs can live in the 14th Century as they want and the rest of the world can move on through the 21st Century. Urge your legislators to support incentives or whatever it will take to get alternative sources of energy in use as soon as possible if not sooner.

Answer 3

Because there are moderates in every religion.
You're only getting one view of these kinds of issues.
My entire family is Muslim, and no one treats women like property, in fact, women in our family and in our neighbourhood rule the entire social structure.
Killing a woman for dishonouring her family is not an ISLAMIC value. It's an Arab value if anything, but don't blame it on Islam. Just because you hear about it doesn't mean the majority approves of it.
Governments all over the world try to silence their opponents. Even in AMERICA.

Answer 4

Why are Islamic international places so useless-set adverse to freedom of speech? pass and purchase a Cosmo interior the UAE and also you may see that about 0.5 of it will be censored out. similar with television, no longer some thing "un-Islamic" is authorized to be broadcast. Does Islam strike you as being a faith of idea-administration?

Answer 5

Why are so you worried about other religions? Should you, me and everyone else be more worried about our own land rather than what is happening in Egypt. And if someone chooses to become Islamic, then that is their right, same with anyone else who has chosen Catholic, Pentecost, Mormon, Buddhist, etc.

Answer 6

Under current U.S law, a woman can legally kill a baby and hid it under the context of "freedom of choice". What makes us so much more civlized?

Answer 7

Its called the Golden Rule. I wouldn't want a bunch of Muslim fanatics coming over to our country and telling us how run OUR business.

Answer 8

I dont live there, you dont live there. Lets worry about our own country for once!

Answer 9

the liberals do not care about that. For the reason that it fits in there plan for the USA.
They do not want you to have any freedom other than that they choose to give you.