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Old 12-01-2008, 12:20 PM
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Taranto is at best a biased source for any information concerning Islam, figures he would select another bigot for their opinion. But how does society manage ideologies that possess the truth, when those truths conflict with each other. I was reading Jeremy Waldron's piece on Salman Rushdie where he asked the question, how can we be tolerant of a religion that asked that Rushdie be killed for blasphemy? The issue then is to make religion tolerant, and if religion becomes tolerant maybe Taranto and Wilders will be too. Any hope there you think?
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