There was an issue whereby one of Malaysia's celebrity, Din Beramboi passed away and there was a boy on Facebook who said something disrespectful and mean. He said "Al-F*ck for Din", whereby it was suppose to be "Al Fatihah for Din".
The boy is a school boy. Around 13 years old or lesser. What he said is totally wrong and deserved to be slapped. There was a face book fan page that demand the boy to apologized for what he said. Basically, it's a hate page towards the boy.
I noticed that some of the comments made by those who joined the page demanded that a police report be made against him. I think it's unreasonable. On what grounds you want police to catch him? For insulting the dead? As far as i know, there's no such law. Few months ago, i think it was the Sultan of Johor who passed away and someone insulted him and charges were made against that person. Maybe there's such offence if you insulted the Sultan or Agong since they are the "big" people.
But if you simply insult normal people or celebrities, be it they are dead or alive, it's just a normal insult. It's not even a defamation and defamation don't even worked on dead people. Defamation is an action that you bring against someone who said something UNTRUE about yourself to the PUBLIC and it has the effect of DAMAGING your REPUTATION. Insulting is just saying something mean and humiliating. Someone may say i'm a whore or ugly in their website but i can't do anything about it except for bitching back to that person. This is one of the crappy sides of freedom of speech.
But i found out that the boy is not a Muslim. He's a Sabahan in fact. I wonder what is happening to the Sabahan these days, very foul mouthed. When i was in Sabah, before moving to KL, my non Malay Sabahan friends are nice. In fact i dare say that Sabahan people are less racists than the Semananjungs. I guess the racial tension is taking it's toll on Malaysians. That's what happens when you don't think with your head and are insensitive to people's feelings.
The boy said he's not a Muslim (his name sounded like a Malay name but in Sabah, you can have a Malay like name but you are still a non Muslim), i don't know, could this be a gimmick by him to make people hate non muslims for saying something disrespectful (some people are simply stupid, just because one person said something wrong, they want to blame the whole people who has the same race or religion as him)? But regardless whether the boy is a Muslim or not, he said Al-F*ck, and from his sentence, "Al F*ck for Din" it's suppose to be synonym with Al Fatihah for Din. I'm pretty sure there's an offence for insulting religion, be it other people's religion or your own religion. You can say mean stuff, but never get it involved with race or religion or you'll be in deep shit.
Bearing in mind this idiot boy is a MINOR, he's below 18 years old (i hope he's not less than 10 years old because if he is, then he is doli incapax - incapable of committing crime), he can be made to apologized to the late Din's family and probably community service.
But the way i see people commented in anger on facebook over what the boy said, it made me think would there be a hate page for a 11,12 or 13 year who committed murder? Who killed his family perhaps? They call the boy many mean names. But the way i see the boy handling the situation, he has no such regrets saying what he said since he claimed that the late Din made many "bad" and "hurtful" jokes during his life time.
I don't like children. But if children or young teens commit offensive acts, aren't we suppose to guide them to the right path instead of being very critical of them? Some children are just born to be so rude and mean. I find it hard to deal with them without feeling the urge to slap them for their rudeness but as adults, we know children can't think clearly and rationally and not aware of their offensive actions. Sometimes when children turned out "bad", there are so many factors that lead to it such as bad parenting, bad environment and bad friends' influence.
If i were ever a parent and my child did something like this, i will have to take responsibility by making him apologized to the late Din's family and give him a good lecture at home. If my child is so stubborn that he is so uncontrollable, i'll make an application to the Magistrate Court to get him put in a place something like a center for troubling teens. I saw a woman made such application to a Magistrate before because her 15 year daughter wouldn't listen to her, always running from the house and always coming back home late.