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Old 01-22-2009, 03:02 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
I think this is how Muslims feel. That mocking the temple ceremony should be illegal. Except for them, it's not a 'temple ceremony.' It's other stuff.

If God is the most important thing in the world, what could be more important than upholding, through law, basic respect for God?

Freedom of speech is more important than God?

The Westerner says 'yes, if you want to put it like that.'

However even in America we have the same fundamentalist impulses, i.e. putting people in jail for burning the flag.
That is the impulse, which you're capable of expressing. But thanks to that impulse, ignorance, repression and a general lack of understanding permeate Islamic society.

We don't talk about things and so many of those things remain a mystery of ignorance.
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