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I think it only becomes an issue when people bring values that are going against the grain.
The "it's wrong because I don't like it" approach
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Not when people are being killed cos they believe in the wrong type of Islam for the guy that killed them.
Not when USA megachurches come in that want to set back religious freedom 100 years.But that's assuming you think religious bigotry/privilege is wrong. The Tories don't seem to think it is. And that's where the snag is, how can you say to people "this is wrong" if you can't agree as a society.
JWestland
I think it only becomes an issue when people bring values that are going against the grain. But what that is isn't so easy to define.
A Glasgow shopkeeper that was killed because of the issues in Pakistan of his form of Islam is something nobody is waiting for. But my Dutch secularism/feminism ruffles feathers too, some people want to keep this sectarian part of NI.
It's a conversation we need to have with each other. But society can't even agree internally sometimes on what it wants to be... You would think secularism/human rights are givens, but no.