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Thread #88725 Message #1683063
Posted By: Wolfgang
02-Mar-06 - 06:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Muslim Cartoons...
Subject: RE: BS: The Muslim Cartoons...
Facing the new totalitarianism
(Manifest signed by Salman Rushdie et al.)
...the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism....a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats....We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.
Wolfgang