bogarde73 wrote on Jul 27
th, 2016 at 10:33am:
Yadda, "Why afford protection etc etc"?
Good question.
Probably two answers.
First we had "Enlightenent" which engendered the progression of liberal philosophy, including the principle of tolerance.
Second, The Enlightenment, funnily enough, was soon followed by several centuries of religious wars that left deep scars in the European tradition and reinforced again the wisdom of tolerance AMONG OURSELVES.
And now we are hung up on tolerance to the extent that it includes those who wish to kill us, as well as those who wish to undermine the foundations of a civilised society in many ways.
bogarde73,
I would still maintain that
it is illogical, .....and it is beyond belief that we [as a collective community] feel such a degree of
servile timidity towards the possibility that we may offend anyone, .....that we are now struck with
a moral paralysis, regarding [among other things] the legal status of moslems [followers of ISLAM] in nations like Australia.
Moslems,
unashamedly!!!, .....are members of a formal community of people [the
nation of
ISLAM], a group whose laws, collectively sanctions and encourages, what are criminal actions and behaviour [by our laws].
And we are happy with this circumstance,
and actually protect [in law!] this community of wanna-be criminals !!! ?
I am appalled.Yadda said.....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1469526327/84#84 Quote:
QUESTION;Australia!!!!Why would we choose to afford a group of people [i.e. moslems] a general protection in law [e.g. Constitution, section 116], ....simply because that group of people [i.e. moslems]
assert and insist that they are members of a 'religious group', and therefore they must be afforded all protections in law, that are normally afforded to members of a religious group ???
QUESTION;Why, afford followers of ISLAM, a special protection in law, ....when many of the protocols of that 'religion' [ISLAM], call for their followers to engage criminal violence against anyone who does not believe, as they believe ?
Affording such a protection [in law], to a group of people who follow a philosophy like ISLAM, .....is insanity, imo !!!