And meanwhile, in Russia…
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January 17, 2015 at 6:45pm
Silencing and harassing those who are a real or perceived threat is not the preserve of Islam or any other religion. It’s the way of all those with a totalitarian mindset.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150116/world/police-raid-putin-critics-offices.552131
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-17/world-news/Charlie-Hebdo-cover-causes-unrest-in-Muslim-world-6736128899
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.636488
”Vladimir Putin is the supposed strong man at the centre of a nation that seeks to play a decisive role in world affairs. He is elected time and again. Yet a free press seems to mean pitifully little to him. You investigate? You report? You die, unavenged.” Peter Preston
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/11/putin-win-russian-free-press
Joseph Muscat and Shiv Nair are quite the team when it comes to this.
And he had the cheek to send his foreign minister to the Paris ‘free speech’ rally!
Putin is a product of the KGB apparatus of the Communist USSR. Islam and Christianity have nothing to do with his policies, except to the extent that he can use or abuse them to further his aim for power over Russia, and if possible, over the same territory of the former USSR. Absence of freedom of expression was a hallmark of Soviet Communism, strangely enough echoed by mourners at the funeral of one of the victims to freedom of expression, described as “without responsibility”, by the victim himself.
Bringing this is in to explain freedom of speech and the responsible use of this right, only goes cloud the real issue.