Cultural and Religious disputes should never offend the law and human rights. They are free of testing the limits of the law, they are free (AND SHOULD BE) to force the law to progress and adapt, but they should never offend the general principle, the law and human rights and most of all the citizen, the individual.
The grand virtue of a statement, being him whatever kind, is the possibility of being criticized and scorned. The power of an argument, the strength of a theory is tested in the field, in "the field of battle" otherwise is pure dictatorship and imposition. There is no room for that, we do not want that. Everything that is oppressing and constraints thought and freedom of speech, must be cast aside. If one cannot live among the others, if one cannot expose and dispute is convictions and TOLERATE other views, then he should move to another location.
But in that location, people must stay in they´re one free will, choosing their fate, because choosing one´s fate it is also a human right. If it is to exist an extremist state, from my point of view, with the "charia", let it be. But people must choose to live in it, not be forced to live in it.
All along history we have add major changes that started with massification of ideals. From Greek democracy and the concept of "free man", from the concept of Roman, to the concept of citoyen, from Russian to Soviet and from Soviet to Russian, the world as turned and turned and will keep on turning with the difference that we have been moving from open and declared wars and violence to a more localized disputes. Even with all the diplomacy mistakes after WWII, the progress is noticed.
In this way Perhaps one day the majority of the world will be Budhist or Jew or Muslim, or nothing, but today we say out and loud, WE DO NOT WANT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! France does not want this, the LARGE majority of the world does not want this, Muslims do not want this.
So i get back to the title, if you do not believe you do not understand, but the big difference is that instead of killing, or causing injuries in some other way, we just dispute, argue, cross examine, test the logical value of the arguments, right a comment, laugh, scorn, and at last, at the end of day we are FREE to say: Way don´t you go and fuck yourself? Let us all have a beer...Upss, you cannot drink! Can i have a tea please?
