Narrow Minded

People kept saying to me when I was in school that I should keep an open mind. But nowadays, when I voice my opinions (mostly on youtube...about Anwar Ibrahim; great man, the one who I think will change the country) people accuse me of being narrow minded and a gay-supporter.
You know what? I have a few gay friends, and they are not evil people. In fact, they are very docile, very kind and very fun people to be around. So yeah, I am a gay-supporter. My relationships are not threatened by gay relationships.
It's not like they woke up one day and decided 'I'm going to be gay from now on!'.
The fact that people are blindly supporting an idea and are not willing to open up to new possibilities is what's called narrow minded.And they say the media is not biased. Oh really? If the media is not biased, how come we never hear about when they banned the sales of tickets to The Passion of Christ in Malaysia?
I have no problems with people wanting to watch a film about the life and death of their saviour; it's not gonna affect me or make me wanna convert. Even if I wanted to convert, what's it to them?The reason why the threat of death is issued to those who dare declare apostasy is to keep the numbers of worshiper high. It's basically terrorism.
People are scared into worshiping. It's why Islam is branded as 'the terrorist's religion'.Narrow mindedness in our country is maintained by controlling what is in the media - they tell us what to fear, what to think of as right, and they demonise anyone who goes against the grain.
It's what they do to keep us scared because the ones who have the power to scare us and threaten us into doing things and believing in things are the ones who hold all the power.
We need to knock those in power down from their pedestal. Just to let them know that we are just as powerful as them. If we continue to let all the abuse in power take place, then we are most definitely powerless.
Me saying all this? That's open minded. Being able to say what I think without having people's thoughts or threats affecting me.RPK freaking awesome!And personally, I doubt that Anwar was gay. What they did to him was character assassination. Dirty, lowly tactics pulled off by cowards.

A voice of a student from Christchurch New Zealand