COMMENT Earlier this month a man named Chow Mun Fai was jailed for a year for being a “revolting individual”.

Actually, Chow was sentenced to jail for insulting Muslims on Facebook. In a couple of posts, he was, in my opinion, willfully insulting to Islam and the prophet.

Indeed, his rantings were so inflammatory that Malaysiakini editors decided against reproducing it, opting instead to paraphrase his vitriol.

Chow is better known to most Malaysians as ‘Chow Jack’. A few months ago, a screenshot of his looney dramatics entered their social media timelines and instant messaging inbox, spreading rage among Muslim smartphone users faster than you can say 'copy, paste and send'...