People are being killed all over the world in the name of one religion. Are we going to keep pretending this religion's beliefs isn't at odds with our own written law?
If I owned a newspaper it's headline Saturday morning would have read 'Freedom of Religion' with a large picture of all the dead French in the road.
They are not allowing us freedom from their religion, and thus, do not belong in our countries that share this ideal.
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[–] birds_sing 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Christianity has many branches. One of these branches is Mormonism. In Mormonism polygamy isn't just allowed it's also encouraged. But polygamy is illegal. While you are free to practice Mormonism, you are not allowed to practice the parts that are illegal. The law comes before freedom of religion.
Unless it's Islam, that's different. In Islam you can practice polygamy, have child brides, beat all of your wives (because they're your property), kill homosexuals, rape, molest children, perform honor killings, etc. Because it's ok to be anti-Christian, but being Islamophobic is wrong. And the reason for that is the vocal minority says so. And the silent majority allows themselves to be silenced with two words - Racist and Islamophobic. Oh, and there's no such thing as equality. You aren't allowed to treat a Muslim the same way you would treat a Christian.
Those two words have power Racist and Islamophobe. Take the power away from those words and maybe someday we'll have equality.
[–] Kal [S] 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
Finally someone contributing a point that this was started for.