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Related: About this forumMisguided liberals are playing us all into the hands of the Islamist tyrants
http://www.secularism.org.uk/blog/2012/01/misguided-liberals-are-playing-us-all-into-the-hands-of-the-islamist-tyrantsRegarding events at the London School of Economics.
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Misguided liberals are playing us all into the hands of the Islamist tyrants (Original Post)
MNBrewer
Jan 2012
OP
Some who believe in the rapture/etc probably do want to steer us in that direction
The Straight Story
Jan 2012
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)1. I am not misguided.
I'm steering the world into the hands of the Islamic terrorists on purpose.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)2. Well then, that's completely different.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)3. Some who believe in the rapture/etc probably do want to steer us in that direction
to fulfill prophecy
dmallind
(10,437 posts)4. Despite the shock-jock headline the article is accurate
There is not only no need to protect Islam as a set of ideas from criticism, but also a very real danger in equating an idea with people. We see this same inability to separate ridicule of an idea from ridicule of people among DU believers too, and it's wrong and censorship in both cases