May Allah gives all of us knowledge to walk on the right path….Ameen

Let me try and respond to your questions sir. Before I embark on the formidable task of doing so, let me tell you right on the onset, I do find your questions quiet relevant and also important for all of us to ponder. It will help us realize what it is that we are really talking about. So, thanks for putting these questions up for discussion. However, let me also make a request in this regard – though you haven’t given your response to the questions you posed, please don’t refrain from doing so even after hearing other people’s responses (how else would we have a conversation if you do not put in your two cents in it, right?)

1. bak sadinota mane ki amar jake icca tar birudde kotha bolar sadinota?

Ans 1. Basically yes – freedom of speech, bakshadhinota, is the freedom to say and/or write whatever it is that one feels like. The idea is that the freedom is the rule, while any restrictions on it will be exception to the rule and should require a great degree of consideration before imposing one.

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

By way of implication, this freedom includes what we might think of as stupid and insensitive. If such stupid and insensitive ideas are not allowed and forcefully suppressed, then it calls for a time when proclaimers of such stupid and insensitive ideas will forcefully suppress ideas that we think are good and beneficial for humanity.

After all, speech is speech. It is not like someone is beating someone up. In order for people to be hearing God’s voice, it is necessary that space is left open for the Devil’s voice as well. Then it remains up to the individuals which way they would turn.

2. bangladeshe bak sadinota nai

2. bangladeshe bak sadinota nai…world r kon deshe bak sadinota ase?

3. amaericai ki ami jekono kisur birudde kotha bolte parbo?

4. freethinker mane ki sudu islam k galagali kora..onno religion gula ki 100% correct je ogula k galagali korar kisu nai?

5. freethinker ra asole kiser theke free…sudu religion theke free holei ki freethinker hoya jai..family/society/country/world r je rules gula ase..segula r vitore theke tara free thinking koren kemne? naki tara family/society/country/world r baire bas koren??

6. bangali culture bad dia onno culture follow korlei ki amar bangali jati sotta ami muche falte parbo?

7. onno culture follow korle ki amra jate ute jabo..? onno culture r lokgula amader ki tader culture r lok mone korbe naki tokono amader akjon bangali hisabei dekbe?

ami ai question gular answer dilam na————-tomra nijerai ai question gular answer khuje nao………

If British law allowed me to change my name on my birth certificate, I’d gladly do it.

What’s so superior about the Arab and Arabic language?

We must refuse to word-worship the Arab’s since we have our historically rich Bengali language. Arabic words/language is overrated.

Must we apologize on the cartoonist’s behalf? Must we apologize for his creative and artistic activities, thought processes? Why?

Don’t give in to these closet pedosceles!

Thanks.

No wonder your country is in poverty and your children are starving — you allow EVIL to use your energies on stupid things like cartoons — anything to keep you from actually working to solve your problems.

The above statement was not only ill-informed but the kind of rhetoric the Islamists spew when they talk hatefully about the West. You painted a country of 150 million people with a rather broad brush based on what you now say is very limited understanding. If you want to have a meaningful dialogue, I welcome it. But if you want to throw around hollow rhetoric and hateful generalizations, your best bet is to engage the Islamists — they will speak a similar language.