Freedom of Expression - Abdel Kareem Nabil

Notice: Quite a Long Entry…(aku tengah geram)

Everywhere (at least in so called blogging world) we hear phrase ‘Freedom of Speech’. Since Rocky Bru and Jeff Ooi kena saman dengan NST, blogger around Malaysia semakin semangat menuntut kebebasan bersuara. Even Prime Minister, Pak Lah gave he comments regarding this issue. Interesting….

I want to ask all blogger (expecially Muslim blogger) and my friend here to read about this young man story…. Abdel Kareem Nabil

“An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president…” - WashingtonPost

“Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University, has often denounced Islamic authorities and criticised Mubarak on his Arabic-language blog.”- Al Jazeera

“An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and Egypt's president…..” - AP

As usual, I don’t think anybody going to click the link. So, here the synopsis:

Nabil owned Arab language blog that the main content are about Al-Azhar University and Islam as whole. He often lashed out at Al-Azhar calling it "the University of Terrorism" and accusing it of encouraging extremism. In other words, dia adalah US minded Arab young man. Berselindung dibawah perkataan ‘freedom of expression’ dia kutuk Islam dan University Al-Azhar. He used to study in law at Al-Azhar University and university management kicked him out last March after realize how vocal he is with his blog. After expelled from Al-Azhar dia jadi semakin ganas, sehingga mengutuk Islam, Nabi Muhammad and tentunya Al-Azhar. So he leave Egypt government no choice other than take him to justice. So, as normal as it sound, western media love this story. Its triggers a shock wave all around blogging world. His face all over the places, even ada website dedicated to him ‘www.freekareem.org’. Amnesty International also interested to help the movement to release him.

Egypt memang ada menahan beberapa blogger tahun lepas, most of them for connections to Egypt's pro-democracy reform movement. Majority blogger tu mengutuk kepimpinan Hosni Mubarak, totally different case compare dengan Nabil.

(Please consider to read the articles yourself, since I believe I’m not the best translator ever)

For me, everything has a limit. There is no total freedom. Yes, we can express our feeling, it is our right to give any kind of opinion. I don’t know how to explain this to non muslin, but for me anybody who kutuk Islam or insult Nabi Muhammad, I personally consider to kill him myself.

Something that struck me deep in my heart:

Despite the trial, Kareem has been selected as a nominee for one of the 7th Annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.

Can’t believe it, he got an award for insulting Islam and Nabi Mohammad? I can’t found any parties that condemn what Nabil did, everybody sound agree with his unethical behavior. Where the hell all Islam activist? What Islam organization going to do about it?

But also reach to my knowledge, Nabil not 100% insult Islam and Nabi Muhammad, some of his article are about gender discrimination, Mubarak’s ‘dictatorship’ ruling and some other ‘good’ thing. But, mungkin kerana terlalu asyik, sometimes dia terbawa-bawa sehingga mengutuk Islam dan junjungan besar nabi kita.

Antara petikan dari Blog Nabil:

“…Muslims revealed their true ugly face and appeared to all the world that they are full of brutality, barbarism and inhumanity…" - His comments regarding riot all around the world resulting from comical picture of Prophet Muhammad.

“In a later essay not cited by the court, Nabil clarified his comments, saying Muhammad was "great" but that his teachings on warfare and other issues should be viewed as a product of their times..” - WashingtonPost

“He called Al-Azhar the ‘other face of the coin of al-Qaida’ and called for the university to be dissolved or turned into a secular institution….” - WashingtonPost

Dia kutuk umat Islam, Nabi Muhammad and University Al-Azhar….. And people turn him into ‘Freedom of Speech’ hero….and nothing we can do about it..

Dia bodoh..? mereka bodoh..? or kita yang bodoh..?!

Update: Thanks to Bro Roslan SMS, sebab memanjangkan isu ini kat blog beliau.

News Update (Utusan Malaysia)

Ramai dah kenal 2 Malaysian blogger yang kena sued by NST. Even Pak Lah comment pasal issue ini dari London

"I don't agree with freedom without responsibility. Freedom without responsibility is anarchy. Actually, it is being irresponsible," – Pak Lah (Bernama)

Jeff and Ahirudin, both always attack English language news paper, they both dulu pernah gaduh where Ahirudin still dalam Malay Mail. Another famous blogger Saudara Roslan (n32.blogspot) pula sering mempersoalkan kewibawaan Utusan Malaysia. Aku tidak pasti kenapa, tapi ramai blogger yang terkenal suka kutuk, question, and suspicious terhadap news yang disampaikan oleh media arus perdana. Maybe they use to be in the loop and they know how bad the system is. Atau mereka sebagai warga Malaysia yang prihatin ingin menuntut kebebasan bersuara. Semua orang sedar sukar (almost impossible) untuk mendapat freedom di Malaysia sebab kerajaan ‘hold the balls’ of all the key people dalam media.

Pada aku pula, I just love to comment any issue yang dipaparkan oleh media. Kalau aku rasa menarik and betul, aku puji. Kalau sebaliknya, aku simply kutuk la. Lagipun nobody really care what I write, maybe just a few friends yang rajin baca blog aku.

So, two main stories aku jumpa dalam Utusan Malaysia today yang aku nak comment.

1. Pecah Amanah Tabung Haji

Useless kalau aku letak link pun, nobody going to click. So here the synopsis:

Datuk Mohd. Amin Sidek, 56, bekas Pengurus Besar Kanan (Kewangan) dan Datuk Mohamad Shafie, 57, bekas Pengurus Besar Kanan (Pelaburan) dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 10 tahun kerana menipu dua menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri dalam urusan pelaburan bernilai RM200 juta. They purposely blind the Board of Director and Minister eye’s to make an investment at Metrowangsa Aset Management Sdn. Bhd. yang tidak berlesen.

Comment aku:

1. Dua datuk itu pandai tapi jahat. Sampai hati mereka melaburkan duit pakcik-makcik yang mengimpikan lambaian Kaabah kedalam urusan yang tidak diakui ke’bersihan’nya. Totally unacceptable. Syaitan bertopengkan manusia. They are no different between them and perompak yang merompak duit derma di masjid.
2. How come minister and board of director menjadi sebegitu bodoh mempercayai maklumat dari dua manusia durjana ini? Pelik dan ajaib, should be minister will ask his officer at Jabatan Perdana Menteri to check information yang diberikan. Adakah menteri kita sebegitu bodoh? Or they just too smart? (you know what I mean, right?)

2. Ceramah PAS Bukti Mainan Pembangkang

“Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata, kehadiran beberapa pemimpin Pas berceramah di Batu Talam malam tadi mengesahkan tindakan parti itu memulau pilihan raya kecil kawasan tersebut sebagai permainan politik pembangkang semata-mata.” – Copy and paste from Utusan.

My Comment:

Datuk Seri kita ni bodoh or pura-pura bodoh? Difficult for me to understand pemikiran ahli politik. It’s an indicator impossible for me to become a politician one day, sometimes they made themselves look sooo stupid. PAS ‘berkempen’ di Batu Talam to tell their supporters why they boycott the election. They want to make sure everybody knows, they not afraid to face BN. Furthermore, by law PAS do not permitted to ‘berkempen’, so BN can simply log a police report or official complain to ‘lembu mereka’ (SPR). I believe PAS not that stupid to jeopardize their future, they know what they did at Batu Talam last few days can not be consider as ‘kempen pilihanraya’, just a normal gathering to clarify their decision to their grassroots.

Kenapa lah pemimpin BN, bersungguh di Batu Talam, budak hingusan 21 years old je pun. Cool la sikit, tak perlulah sampai bawa Datin/Datuk Siti and suami kesana. Bagi chance mereka buat anak dulu, the whole nation want to see ‘kepoweran’ datuk misai kita.

Tsunami..di Sabah and to Malaysian Blogger

Luckily there are no tsunami kat Sabah semalam, itulah kuasa Allah namanya, 5 gempa susulan pun still no tsunami, Alhamdullilah.

Last few days, dua blogger terkenal Malaysia kena tsunami juga. Mereka disaman oleh NSTP kerana…(aku tak sure sebabnya, so bacalah sendiri). There are a lot of people supports these two blogger, even ada gerakan to raise fund to help them fight against NSTP and fight for freedom of speech in general. For me, they know the risk, they ready to take the gamble so, what a big deal. Kalau takut dilambung ombak, janganlah berumah ditepi pantai (tangan macam Karam Singh).They also gain a lot of money through sponsor and advertisement on their site, I believe they will not end up bankrupt even mahkamah dapati mereka bersalah. But still, aku rasa macam nak join juga Walk With Us tu, layak ke aku? Hahahahaha…..malas lah..!

- News from Jeff Ooi: here

- News from Rocky’s bru: here

- Thank you note from Jeff: here

- Comment from Marina: here

Aku pernah bersembang dengan orang MCMC Datuk something lah, he said for blogger yang gunakan free site like blogger.com, blogdrive or freewebs, government will not monitor their article, since government still consider they write just for fun. But different case for blogger use paid domain, meaning dia serious and most probably gain a lot of traffic. MCMC will then, read and sent few warning to them if they broke any regulation or ethical values. But for Ahirudin’s case, dia gunakan blogspot, still kena. Errrmmm… this proves orang kerajaan memang tidak boleh percaya. They just said what ever they want. Stupid..!

Last year aku dengar Perez Hilton kena sued by one publishing company for using their picture illegally. Most blogger kena saman dengan media company, so to be safe just avoid yourself dari sentuh media giant ini. Hahaha.. tidak salah jadi pengecut kalau kita tidak cukup kuat.

Sports Sikit:

For those who live in Klang Valley and free tomorrow night, if they refuse to sacrifice Ringgit Malaysia Sepuluh untuk menyokong Malaysia lawan Singapore, aku rasa mereka sepatutnya senyap dan jangan gatal mulut nak komen pasal bolasepak Malaysia lagi. They neglect to show 100% to support our contry, so, jangan mengada-ngada nak marah player if they failed to gove 100% effort atas padang. Player Malaysia promise to give everything to beat our arch-rival. Kalau aku berkesempatan, aku sanggup merayu pada player kita supaya kalahkan Singapore and make Goh Tat Chuan eat his own nasty, smelly, shitty, tahi kambing words.

Liverpool 2 - 0 Chelsea, Hahaha..hahahhaha...Confirm there are serious crisis inside the London club.

Arsenal 2 - 1 Mangkuk, Kah..kah..kah..kah...for the record, Arsenal memang perform lawan team power.