看看这一案件的描述：（http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/09/on-tolerance-sedition-and-forgiveness/）
On 19 October 2007, Irwan Bin Ariffin was checking his letterbox, having just returned from his Aidlifitri prayers. He found an envelope with his name and address written on it. It could have been a Hari Raya card for all he knew, if not for the bulk of its contents. Opening the envelope, Irwan found a little book with the title ‘Who is Allah?’
Fresh from his prayers, this seemed to be a serendipitous find. When Irwan flipped the pages, however, he was shocked to discover that he was holding on to a tract, illustrated like a comic, which denigrated Islam. It was filled with drawings of sinister-looking Arabs, and alleged that Allah was a pagan moon god. The tract was published by Chick Publications, a company based in America.
Irwan made a police report, as he believed that a publication of such nature might ‘incite religious tension between Muslims and Christians’.
对于这一案，法官从两个方面阐述了事件的严重性：
客观方面：Any reasonable person reading the tracts [which level a pointed attack by one religion on another]… will have no doubt in his mind that the tracts have a
seditious tendency i.e. a tendency to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility
between races or classes of the population of Singapore.
从上面的描述来看，这个事件这是一本成册的东西，指名道姓地寄到人家家里，而且明确地谈论宗教话题——名是《谁是安拉》，直接指向穆斯林的神，这个显然针对性和攻击性都很强。所以法官才说任何有理性的人都不会怀疑这具有煽动倾向。孙同学的案子客观来说比这个轻得多：既未指名道姓，也未出现在大量新加坡人光顾的网站，更未直接指向新加坡人。
主观方面：[The complainants] Irwan, Isa and Farharti are all Muslims who have read the tracts they received from [both the accused]. They have all stated that the tracts have a tendency to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between Muslims
and Christians. They were angry after they read the tracts which they felt have
been sent by Christians to convert them. Their evidence clearly proves that the
publication[s] have a seditious tendency.
有三个人报案，并且愿意提供证词，接受控辩双方和法庭盘问。这和上面第五条是不同的。安拉是伊斯兰教的神，侮辱之会有宗教极端分子愿意牺牲自己的时间精力去报案作证并不奇怪。孙同学的情况明显与此不同。当然如果真遇上几个极端的人，坚持说自己受到了很大侮辱并愿意作证，那孙同学处境很不妙。不过按常理来说极端的人应该在一开始就出来报案，现在言论已经删除并且公开道歉过了，如果有人再跳出来，本身其可信度就大打折扣了。
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