[–] novictim 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
What this amounts to is what Rousseau referred to as "Tolerating Intolerance".
From the Enlightenment period in France, this paradox was explored and conclusions arrived at. The French intelligentsia ultimately realized that while religious freedom was a goal, such a path could not remain open to those that insisted on bridging the private expression of religion with the political workings of French society.
Letting Catholic Zealots, the chief counter revolutionaries at this time, attempt to continuously undermine the Republican notion of Secularism and Freedom for All lead to the continued slow burn of the Reformation with the death and violence that it entailed. In order to eliminate these divisions and the violence that attended them, religious garb and dress was outlawed in the public space. Think about that. This was two centuries ago when these arguments were hashed out and these measures implemented
So the expression of Religiosity was banned in the public space. French leaders and thinkers ultimately concluded that such a policy of tolerating the intolerant was wrong headed, was a policy of suicide and poison to the political and social system that they had fashioned based on Pluralistic values/Freedom.
We have forgotten these basic lessons. Islam cannot be tolerated because it is the purest of poisons to a secular system. Iran and Palestine and now Turkey prove this to us. Islam has to go.
[–] wgtt911 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This would be fine if he'd resettle them in his little girls school district or Hollywood California