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The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
2. This Kind Of Thing Gets Right Up My Left Nostril, Sir
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 11:59 PM
Sep 2020

Islamic clerics have no right attempting to enforce their beliefs on people who do not share them. I would consider it rude and discourteous to speak disparagingly of Mohamed to a believer, but he has no more right to insist I refrain from doing so than a believer in Christ would have. Push it far enough, I am quite capable of leaving off guiding my behavior by politeness.

In short, these people can fuck off, and grow up to realize the world contains a great variety of people, most of whom do not share their religious views, and learn to live with that.

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