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Terrifying time for free speech
Updated On: 08 August, 2015 08:29 AM IST | | Kanchan Gupta
<p>These are bad times for men and women who believe in liberty and equality.</p>
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Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chakrabartyu00e2u0080u0099s wife mourns his murder yesterday. The secular blogger was hacked to death at his own home in Dhaka. Pic/AFP
These are bad times for men and women who believe in liberty and equality. These are terrifying times for those who believe in freedom — freedom of thought, freedom of expression and freedom of speech.
The tyranny of bigots and fanatics was never to be trifled with. History is replete with instances of bigotry and fanaticism prevailing over liberty and freedom through the use of barbaric force. Today, a global surge of hate makes the situation more sinister as thousands are killed, maimed, raped or sold into slavery in the name of faith.
The world sleeps as humanity loses, bit by bit, nobility of thought, speech and action. The barbarians may be at our gates, metaphorically or literally, but we remain unmoved, paralysed either by fear and foreboding or by a strange lethargy that defies the most primal of all instincts: the instinct of survival. Meanwhile, bigotry flexes its muscles and fanaticism stretches its sinews as the sword of hate slices through an ever-increasing arc, laying low old and young, men and women, healthy and infirm, children and infants.
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