"The protection to free speech enshrined in the Constitution serves this very purpose, and exists to ensure that all quarters, not just the perceived majority, can exercise this right”.

- Zaid Malek (Lawyers for Liberty)

COMMENT | Let me be very clear. Nobody, certainly not the state, cares about hurting the religious feelings of non-Malays/Muslims.

The director of the film “Mentega Terbang” was charged with “intentionally wounding the religious feelings of others” and this has nothing to do with the religious feelings of non-Muslims.

If the state cared about the feelings of non-Malays/Muslims, they would have charged Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin over his “cow worshippers” poem which caused aggrieved NGO groups to lodge police reports against him.

Indeed, Asri said that he wanted to explain to...