(May 30, 2015 at 11:26 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(May 30, 2015 at 10:43 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Radicals do not define a movement, to the rationally- minded. One has to be terribly blinkered to se a sliver of a minority as representative ... that's like upholding Stalin and his Chekists as representative of leftists.
Silly, just bloody silly.
At what point is someone a radical? In Islam controlled countries there is no free speech. It's not the radicals that are the problem, it's the religion.
The same was true of Europe when it was in the grip of the Catholic Church in the dark ages. When a religion is in charge of a country, there is no free speech. It is nothing unique to Islam.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
