Combating Hate Speech from the Perspective of Islamic Philosophy: Building a Moral Paradigm

[...]there is minimal political will to adequately and appropriately respond to instances of 'hate speech' surfacing in society at large. According to Saeed Alzahrani, hate speech under the traditional Islamic perspective (Shariah) is ambiguous and that in turn increases hate speech under the justification of protection of freedom of expression. If this rule is violated, this will "lead a people to the backbiting and a person to a doubt". [...]there are two perspectives for the verse can be related to the problem of the hate speech: that is, the legal one, and the second is social one. According to al-Farabi, the human must have anger (gadhb) not only because of his nature (since part of it is the "power of anger", "the animal" part of the soul, al-quwwah al-gadhbiyah), but only "where it is appropriate" ('ala ma yanbagi).