Wednesday, March 21, 2012
How do the Islamists keep on expanding their power?
Paul Marshall and Nina Shea have written a book entitled Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide.
“Our survey shows that in Muslim-majority countries and areas, restrictions on freedom of religion and expression, based on prohibitions of blasphemy, apostasy, and ‘insulting Islam,’ are pervasive, thwart freedom, and cause suffering to millions of people.”
"Who will stand up, under these circumstances, to block the militants in their forward march? Absolute majorities of people in one country after another may well look upon the champions of a totalitarian Islam with disdain and horror. But the majorities have every reason to keep their feelings to themselves; and people who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are. Anyway, majorities sometimes do side with the radicals, as we have been learning, which leaves the whole responsibility for putting up a resistance in the hands of some very lonely minorities…"
Read a comprehensive review here: http://www.tnr.com/article/books/magazine/101716/islam-blasphemy-freedom-speech?passthru=NWQzMTQ2ODhhNmI4NzdiZTQwZGJmMzhjOTdlM2RjYmE
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Forgive this negative example but this is why there had to be a better way to eliminate the "n" word than the way we've gone about it. Saying that word as any other race than black is more self incriminating than strapping a bomb on a kid and sending him into a mall.
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