“It is very important to see ‘sentiment’ in context. First, it is too subjective an idea to protect religious or any other sentiments from being hurt. Second, there are all manner of sentiments, and raising one undefined concept over all other sentiments or sensibilities is very dangerous. Indeed, the frequent extra judicial killings being witnessed in Pakistan is the direct result of having done so. So personally I do not think creating intolerance of alternative views in the garb of ‘protecting religious sentiment’ should have any place in a modern, civilized society. If we continue on this path, forget the internet, you can say good bye to all freedoms in time, says Gul Bukhari of B4A to The Friday Times.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:16:42 +0000
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