Intolerance
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Multi-culturalism is what will ultimatly save the west from Islamic (and any other) sort of facism.
[/ QUOTE ]Exactly right.
The antidote to islamic reliious fundamentalism is not christian religious fundamentalism or any other kind of fundamentalism. It's tolerance. End of story.
There is a huge caveat to this :
More often than not, multiculturalism is promoted, by both supporters and opponents, like a relativistic stance towards different cultures, as if every culture carries basically the same intrinsic "value", as if human values are relative.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE! While the ideas of persons who support the practices of Hitler or Mohammed or Pericles the Athenian should be equally tolerated, these practices should NOT be all accepted nor tolerated as equal, in terms of value.
In other words, equal respect as we might accord to the various current or ancient cultures of our world, we should not be treating them all the same way when it comes to practice them. A person in a western democracy who wants to perform a clitoris mutilation on a young girl or cut off the hand of a thief should not be allowed to do any such thing, under the threat of strict penalties.
Mickey Brausch
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