Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech was originally invented to allow socially weaker minorities to stand up for their rights against a powerful establishment. Freedom of speech is not a safe conduct for the majority to make fun of socially weaker minorities. We know from previous century where such fun can lead us. As the Muslims make out the socially weaker minority in our society, we should be particularly concerned about THEIR freedom of speech. Advanced societies and advanced written press should particularly offer a platform to the socially weaker groups.

The terrorist is someone who is essentially impatient. It is his social weakness that becomes unbearable to him and he decides to destroy this weakness in an act of despair. A competition driven society that ignores its spiritual values will see more terrorists at work, no matter what the "cause" is. The reason is that in such society, the consequence of being socially weak is indeed totally unbearable: you are excluded and start suffering from complete alienation. The focus on common, sometimes "forgotten", values in the different manifestations was therefore not a coincidence.