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Feb. 9th, 2006 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoI read the responses from world leaders in this matter of the Dutch book containing editorial cartoons declared 'blasphemous' by the imams, and I am heartened.
The radical religious leaders demand that governments stifle their subjects in the name of religious sanctity, that laws be rewritten in democracies to accomodate and bow to religious beliefs. They insist that people who do not follow their credos bow their heads in obedience.
And for the most part, Europe and the Americas say "You don't understand." (Which is a refreshing change of pace, because far too often it seems the other way around.) They say "We believe that the freedom of our citizens is more important than holy despotism, and we will not sacrifice the will of the people (The Demos part of democracy) to the will of Hassan Nasralah." Or Pat Robertson. Right?
The radical religious leaders demand that governments stifle their subjects in the name of religious sanctity, that laws be rewritten in democracies to accomodate and bow to religious beliefs. They insist that people who do not follow their credos bow their heads in obedience.
And for the most part, Europe and the Americas say "You don't understand." (Which is a refreshing change of pace, because far too often it seems the other way around.) They say "We believe that the freedom of our citizens is more important than holy despotism, and we will not sacrifice the will of the people (The Demos part of democracy) to the will of Hassan Nasralah." Or Pat Robertson. Right?