Malaysia is not hostile towards activist up to a point. The authorities are protecting Siti and investigations are ongoing. While we are in solidarity with Siti, she too must be fair and guarded when criticising on race and religion.
For Siti to assume those who study religion are ones that are not smart enough to be engineers doctors and lawyers, is a fallacy.
Siti must first know what a religion is. It is a belief systems, much like philosophy. While philosophy is a system of thoughts, religion is a belief sytems that consider God in its arguments. One has to be smarter to study religion than to study and practise law.
In fact Siti should google and she will find that the greatest scientist of them all, Sir Isaac Newton (who distilled nature into precise mathematical expressions) believed and practised religion. Rene Descartes (of the x-y coordinates fame) who argued 'how do we know what we know' and reasoned existence with 'i think therefore i am' created mathematical tools for doctors and engineers.
While we stand in solidarity with Siti and all human rights defenders, do express criticise and promote virtues albeit with consideration of our own ignorance.
Malaysia is not hostile towards activist up to a point. The authorities are protecting Siti and investigations are ongoing. While we are in solidarity with Siti, she too must be fair and guarded when criticising on race and religion.
For Siti to assume those who study religion are ones that are not smart enough to be engineers doctors and lawyers, is a fallacy.
Siti must first know what a religion is. It is a belief systems, much like philosophy. While philosophy is a system of thoughts, religion is a belief sytems that consider God in its arguments. One has to be smarter to study religion than to study and practise law.
In fact Siti should google and she will find that the greatest scientist of them all, Sir Isaac Newton (who distilled nature into precise mathematical expressions) believed and practised religion. Rene Descartes (of the x-y coordinates fame) who argued 'how do we know what we know' and reasoned existence with 'i think therefore i am' created mathematical tools for doctors and engineers.
While we stand in solidarity with Siti and all human rights defenders, do express criticise and promote virtues albeit with consideration of our own ignorance.