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Dutch MP Barred from Entering Britain

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Vik2/10/2009 8:58:36 pm PST

re: #119 Charles

The way you “defend yourself” against Islam is by using your power of free speech to argue, demonstrate and reveal what you think should be known.

Clearly speech does not work against people who are seeking to achieve their goals by murder, destroying buildings, blowing up public places, etc., as the Islamists are regularly doing today. And of course you have taken this into account. So for free speech to have any efficacy in this matter, you must - correct me if I’m wrong - have in mind that it will be used to encourage the moderate Muslims who are seeking a reformation of Islam.

We all want to see a reformation of Islam into a peaceful religion - of which is it is currently the opposite, as you have shown so powerfully in your ROP posts.

There are multiple efforts underway to seek some interpretation of the Koran which would support such a reformation.

But we are also all aware that the chances of such a reformation are remote.

So we cannot reasonably put all our eggs in that one basket.

Must we leap to the conclusion that the only alternative is fascism? Surely not.

Let’s look to the example of another organization which, though not a religion, used violence to intimidate others. Perhaps something can be learned from the way we dealt in this country with the Mafia.

We didn’t outlaw the Mafia per se - all we had to do was record audio of them of their leaders ordering murders to be committed, and that was enough to jail its leaders.

Islam doesn’t work so differently. No imam points into the crowd at a mosque and says, you, in the third row, go out and blow up a bus next Tuesday.

But what they do is just as dangerous. The imams preach hatred, so that some random person in the mosque self-selects himself to go out and commit an act of violence.

Perhaps all we have to do is recognize this connection, and outlaw that.