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Soft Jihad: the next phase

March 16, 2008 - 5:52 am - by Roger Kimball
Keith
2008-03-18 11:02:15

Perhaps we should sue for the Islamic stance of Democrophobia. I do not consider Islam to be a religion but a Political Ideology and therefore not protected by any religious privilege law. What defines a religion? Surely an essential is true belief but if there is any form of coercion or threat involved, such as death for apostasy or enforced dress, then there can never have been true belief because every member of that ethos will always have known of that threat, Ergo this is not a religion by definition. There is an attempt to undermine us by using their enforced doctrine against our free society which loosely defines religion.We need to ensure that one of the legal definitions of a religion is that it totally ABJURES force or coercion of any kind in recruitment and retention of members or in any of its practises.Our benign society has made us lambs to the wolf and we need to tighten up our legal protection or become prey.