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Geert Wilders to Be Charged with Hate Speech in Netherlands

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nikis-knight1/21/2009 12:38:15 pm PST

re: #728 zombie
Yeah. The fact that Islam is incompatible with other religions isn’t really a problem, but it encompasses a worldview that is incompatible with freedom and democracy.
If people want to call themselves muslim for focusing only on the personal, spiritual aspects of it, that’s great, and maybe one day that will be all it is, but at present the “religion” Islam brings a whole lot of political baggage with it where ever it goes that pose a lot of tricky questions for democracies that want to integrate people of all types into their way of life—without bringing about the end of that way of life.