polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 3
rd, 2016 at 8:45am:
Frank wrote on Apr 3
rd, 2016 at 8:26am:
Why do you demand equal freedom and equal treatment for people who want to defend secular democratic freedoms and those who want to destroy them?
I think FD is better qualified to answer this. He can give his usual spiel about freedom containing the seeds of its own destruction.
What is your solution Frank?
Deny certain people their freedoms because of the views they hold? Seems to me you're not really arguing in favour of freedom, but some sort of despotic system. That may be fine, but don't pretend you are standing up for secular democracy.
Please don't try this nonsense on with me, it is really not credible.
The problem is that Islamists are not content to draw the line at expressing the views they hold.
The problem is that they are willing and prepared to murder and cause harm in the name of their views, in London, Paris, New York, Brussels, everywhere. Perhaps because the views they hold requires them to kill all who do not honour Islam and Mohammed.
And if they are not killing, they are suing others who have different views (lawfare), so even debate about their views is curtailed.
This is not about the exchange of views, its about the imposition of Islamic values and views, which are decidedly and unapologetically unfree, anti-freedom, on unwilling and unsympathetic secular democratic and free societies.
If it was all just talk, nobody would care. But it is daily atrocities, daily demands of curtailment of freedoms, daily demands for the acceptance of customs and norms that are anti-free, anti-secular, anti-democratic. Islamist views do not represent an improvement on any aspect of life, anywhere and most certainly not in free, democratic secular Western societies.