Here's a blast from the recent past. I am a huge fan of classic liberal democracy. It is the foundation of our modern western world. Enemies of freedom are using legal jujitsu to put an end to it. How crafty: Using a society's freedoms to defeat that society.
A Dutch cartoonist has been arrested for anti-Islamic cartoons that violate Dutch law prohibiting violence-inciting speech. Imagine that... Christianity on the old continent could have been saved if good Christians had just bombed and killed those who criticize it. Pelagius has a good article on the whole sorry episode.
Well, at least the guilty cartoonist didn't get slaughtered on the streets of Amsterdam, like Theo Van Gogh did.
This is another wakeup call, but we're still sleeping...
2 comments:
I agree that Islam is currently the greatest threat to freedom and democracy, but to put this is some context, although I don't by any means wish to defend muslims, if you tally up the bodies, I think Christians have kicked more ass over the millenia.
But other than the crusades, when was it done in the name of Christianity?
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