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All religions are NOT created equal, though an athiest might comment here that all are of equal value: low. Some are better than others, maybe, but some are more suited to the modern world than others, and some to a Free modern world. Some are less harmonious with modern, Enlightenment based political philosophy: Islam must bear that charge, since the shoe fits. It does not fit a non autocratic social model. Will people please wake up? (At least, not Islam in its present form. Reform is, I suppose, possible.)

A big problem indeed. The Islam is much to oldfashioned and undeveloped, a bit like every relgion used to be. The only reason of course it is like that is because the islam religion is mainly "practised" in development countries. I cannot see it in another way, christians also used to tortue everybody that diasgreed with them, or that just looked a bit strange.

The problem in the western world is that there is one part that reacts with hatred and misunderstanding, and the other part react with we do not want to discriminate.

You see the funny thing that in holland especially the christian parties are against a ban on wearing headscarfs (for muslim women) and against the placing of new mosks, against the stop of state funding for muslim schools. The only reason for this is of course that if we stop funding muslim schools we also have to stop funding christian schools...

I think we should just be clear about certain things: we don't discriminate so everybody can have the religion he wants but you cannot perform acts which are against our norms and values, like ritual killings of animals and discrimination of women. Not because it is unchristian, but because it does not fit in our society.

Muslim faith for example will also change in a modern society, we just don't need to treat them as lesser people. Just like the bible you can explain the quran more or less any wat you please. So society will change religion as it has been doing forever. Banning a religion, or a conflict between religion will only set the religion back in time.