Universal Islamic Declaratation of Human Rights

[Roshina]

Laws continue to be a source of debate and when they appear vague, a matter of interpretation.

That is why things vary so much from place to place ... and according to circumstance.

Yessssssss! OMG! I couldn't agree more, Tor Khana! Especially with the part about it's all according to circumstances.

Even things that I am willing to defend ... e.g. the principal of free speech ... most people stop short of criminal incitement, but there are people who manage to incite by going over the line or getting close to it ... in which case the laws don't work or are not tight enough ... and there you another another area of legal debate. It's all man-made (should I be using a gender "neutral" term like "people-made" there?) and defence and litigation lawyers line their pockets by getting close to the edge of the law or finding the cracks - using their creative language to do it.

Well, there's use and then there's abuse. Having a right is different from abusing it. Yet, we must also wonder what exactly it means to "abuse" a right, since ... perhaps our response to the practice of a basic human right is more important than the actual practice itself, yes? And we must also keep in mind that if a certain people can't practice something (e.g., saying something negative about Islam in the open), then we, too, shouldn't do the same (e.g., what with our polemical attitude towards all non-Islamic beliefs, particularly Hinduism, the "Arab pagans," and other polytheistic traditions, both ancient and modern). Means to say, if we expect the entire world to be sensitive to OUR beliefs, we should be just as sensitive to theirs.

And lol @ people-made. :p No, "human-made" is more preferable :D But thanks for acknowledging it! Not a lotta people do that, y'know, gosh. It breaks my soul.

[tor_khan]

No, "human-made" is more preferable :D But thanks for acknowledging it! Not a lotta people do that, y'know, gosh. It breaks my soul.

A long time ago, I read a somewhere that some feminists (ouch!!! - you and I have had a brush or two over that word! ... ) say that there is a man in human and thus it's a less desirable/gender neutral word.

Personally, I can't win. And in any case it becomes difficult to walk through this world, always on the lookout , without treading on the occasional eggshell ...

[Palwasha]

A long time ago, I read a somewhere that some feminists say that there is a man in human and thus it's a less desirable/gender neutral word.

Lol, I was also told they don't like the term 'history' because it's 'his-story'.

[imb706]

An *attempt* at irony.
so atheists believ in GOD now

The joke is pretty obvious :p