COMMENT | Encourage robust dialogues, not cage minds

COMMENT | The authorities fear you more if you are able to present cogent arguments which may convince others that what you say has merit.

Weapons may kill or maim, but words and convincing reasons can influence generations and create change. This is what governments fear most.

Instead of wrapping our students in cotton wool and caging their minds with invisible barbed wire to stop alternative thought processes from penetrating their brains, we should be encouraging more robust dialogues.

On April 23, the American academic, Bruce Gilley, upset many Malaysians at a lecture at Universiti Malaya.

They did not like his pro-Israeli views, but people tend to forget...