RELIGION HAS A LONG HISTORY OF RESTRICTING
OPEN INVESTIGATION, SCHOLARSHIP
AND MYRIAD OTHER THINGS BEYOND BUILDING SNOWMEN
“Can Islam ever make peace with liberalism?” Damon Linker
January 2015 Report on: 2013 Pew ResearchCenter poll “Seventy-four percent of Muslims in Egypt, 84 percent of Muslims in Pakistan, 91percent of Muslims in Iraq, and 99 percent of Muslims in Afghanistan would like to live under Islamic law....”
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“Tolerate — and you will be tolerated in turn.”
“That’s the liberal bargain. It is one of the finest achievements of Western civilization, and one of its greatest gifts to humanity in all times and places — nothing less than an all-purpose strategy for getting along despite our often rancorous disagreements about the highest good and ultimate ends of life..