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In reply to the discussion: I just do not understand Paris [View all]alarimer
(16,245 posts)from the 12th century, partially, but not wholly, based on religion.
Ultimately we must fight for true liberal values around the world. I do not believe in cultural relativism. Some things are just wrong, no matter where they occur or who perpetuates them. Whether it is the treatment of women as second class citizens in Christian religions or in the Middle East. It is wrong, full stop.
But it also means the promotion of a diverse, multi-cultural society in which everyone has the right to believe as they wish and speak out as the wish without violent retribution for doing so. These barbarians don't want that either. They want everyone to be subject to their ideology or be killed as apostates.
Make no mistake, this was as much an attack on liberal values and a free society as much as anything else and it should not go unpunished.