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Even if that were the case, that doesn't make it a good idea to align yourselves with Islamists as many on the left have.
by jsmith0295 10y ago
Even if that were the case, that doesn't make it a good idea to align yourselves with Islamists as many on the left have.
- kevingadd 10y agoWhy not?
- jsmith0295 10y agoIt's a totalitarian ideology which is fundamentally opposed to liberal democracy. It shouldn't be tolerated for the same reasons Nazism shouldn't be tolerated.
- jcranmer 10y ago200 years ago, people said the exact same thing about Catholicism.
- pjc50 10y agoYou absolutely have to distinguish between Islam and Islamism, just like people need to distinguish between Zionism and simply being Jewish. Or for that matter between the various forms of Christianity and their levels of political involvement. People have a right to religious beliefs. They do not - must not - have the right to turn that into a legal enforcement of those beliefs on people who do not share them.
- jsmith0295 10y agoYeah, I should've been more clear, but that is what I was talking about.