Life is getting more precarious for atheists in “moderate” Malaysia. But in the West we are much more enlightened. Atheists who criticize Islam aren’t threatened with arrest; they’re just denounced as “Islamophobes” and have their events canceled. Land of the free and home of the brave!
“IGP warns atheists against upsetting Muslims,” The Malaysian Insight, August 16, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
THE Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar has warned those professing to be atheists against holding activities that may upset the majority Muslim population.
“I want to advise this atheist group, don’t try and invoke issues that could upset Malaysians, especially Muslims who oppose those who have no religion. Don’t cause discomfort and unease with their activities,” Khalid said at the police headquarters in Bukit Aman today.
“I am giving them a warning. Don’t think that they can move freely, as they wish. We will refer to the law,” he said….
manat bint allaha says
allah, the arabs deity, is scared sh!tless by atheists, stone carvings, women in bikinis and jokes about islam..
mariam rove says
No matter who you are or what you think, you have to go out of your way not to upset Muslims. m
EDDIE says
mariam, i agree. islam sez i am upset if you have NO religion.
i also am upset if you have ANY belief other than MINE
mortimer says
THE Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar has warned all non-Muslims that there is no freedom of religion or freedom of speech in Malaysia and the police will enforce the discriminatory Sharia blasphemy law.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/10/12/deepening-culture-fear/criminalization-peaceful-expression-malaysia
The Sedition Act and the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) remain the laws most frequently used against critical speech in Malaysia. Those criticizing the administration of Prime Minister Najib Razak or commenting on the government’s handling of a major corruption scandal have been particular targets. The long-running corruption scandal involving the government-owned investment fund 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has prompted calls from politicians, civil society activists, and commentators for Prime Minster Najib to resign from office. Rather than treating such statements as part of normal give-and-take in a democratic society, the Malaysian authorities have treated such speech as criminal, investigating those involved for sedition, “activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy,” and violations of the Communications and Multimedia Act.
Fred says
Apparently, the people of Malaysian govt. must rip off anyone and everyone they deal with. Unfortunately had to deal with them for more than thirty years and will never step foot into that country again.
They lie, steal cheat and are hypocrites when it comes to their religion and how it applies to other non muslims.
balam says
The I.G.P is going against the ‘CHRONIC TEACHING of Sura 2:256. He is equally guilty.
RationalVoice says
We do categorize ourselves an awful lot according to what we hold to be the truth.Of course you have to be thinking properly in the first place to get closer to the full truth of existence of ourselves and the Universe or Multiverses.You can’t do this if you unthinkingly hold to the beliefs of your parents and the cultures you were raised in.Great men like Copernicus,Galileo, Darwin,Einstein,Planck Dawkins,Faraday,Maxwell etc etc all struggled against the accepted wisdom of the time to improve on humanities knowledge, sometimes at the price of imprisonment and death at the hands of brainless religious bigots who refused to drink at the well of enlightenment.They are diehards who still like to label others left,right,protestant,catholic,muslim, jew, and hindu.Muslims are the biggest scourge on freethinking in the world today but there are those in western religions who shame humanity also.
On TV a few days ago there was a Hindu extremist who vowed to kill anybody transporting the “sacred” animal (in his mind) “the cow” for slaughter and set up his own checkpoints on lorries.No police action prevented him.
Most of mankind have come a long way in accepting true knowledge based on empirical evidence but there us still an awful lot who cling to the ignorance of the past and the falsehoods and inventions of religion.
Japetto Donatelli says
“I want to advise this atheist group, don’t try and invoke issues that could upset Malaysians, especially Muslims …”
In other words, don’t exercise your basic human right to free thinking or religious self-determination cuz the ignorant and violent baboons might get angry. And that’s what too many muslims are like, ignorant and violent apes destroying the world’s peace. Any muslim that thinks they have the right to harm or discriminate against atheists or other non-muslims are a menace to humanity. And incidentally, mainstream islam teaches this hateful violence, and that’s why it too is a menace to humanity. I have little patience for this kind of stupidity and hate. Our nation has been through hell and high water trying to overcome racism and bigotry. But so many of our politicians on the left and right are allowing muslims a free hand to install their sharia tyranny right under our noses. It’s like these fools have learned nothing from our own painful past. This “inspector general” sounds like our own weak leaders who want us to keep quiet and bow our necks peaceably for islam. But I say, muslims’ 7th century barbarities have no place in our modern world. If they want to be an ignorant anachronism that hates and kills for religion then they should return to the cave whence they came.
“I am giving them a warning. Don’t think that they can move freely, as they wish.
We in America should heed his warning too. If we continue to ignore all the warning signs about islam and muslims then we too will lose our right to “move freely.” And if Europe is any indication of what’s to come we can also expect to have our kids and women raped, our free speech crushed, and our civil rights annihilated with increased jihad violence. And eventually we’ll end up like the Middle East is today, a backwater of profound ignorance and discrimination run by a cadre of low IQ’d tyrants with the morals of a hungry snake. Message to all you fence sitters, stop ignoring the problem and help us preserve our heritage and our freedoms. This isn’t just an American thing, it’s a humanitarian thing. That’s why I am a student of Robert Spencer. Because he stands for what I know to be best for us all.
If a humanitarian god exists then Robert Spencer is doing god’s work.
somehistory says
“We will refer to the law.” Translation: msolums will attempt to kill you for being atheist, and we will uphold their side against you, the non believer.