Dogma's Demise
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Laurens, I was speaking in general terms.
But anyway, having a religious party is discriminatory to non-Muslims and also some of the Muslims themselves who maybe would rather answer directly to their God for their "sins", not to a nanny state. There should be limits to what kind of agenda you can have a political party. If you had a party for example whose agenda was to ban the other parties or split the country in two, would you think that's okay?
Now a country that's kept Islamists at bay for almost 90 years is Turkey. They disband parties that violate the principle of secularism. In Romania we banned the communist party during the 1989 revolution. It's almost impossible to form a political party based on say, territorial separatism. Are we not a democracy?
What Egypt needs is an Egyptian version of Ataturk. We (i.e. non-Egyptian citizens) cannot do anything, but we speak about it.
Out of curiosity do you recognize the legitimacy of Partij voor de Vrijheid? (That's Wilders' party.) i.e. are Dutch people allowed to control their borders and be selective about immigrants?
But anyway, having a religious party is discriminatory to non-Muslims and also some of the Muslims themselves who maybe would rather answer directly to their God for their "sins", not to a nanny state. There should be limits to what kind of agenda you can have a political party. If you had a party for example whose agenda was to ban the other parties or split the country in two, would you think that's okay?
Now a country that's kept Islamists at bay for almost 90 years is Turkey. They disband parties that violate the principle of secularism. In Romania we banned the communist party during the 1989 revolution. It's almost impossible to form a political party based on say, territorial separatism. Are we not a democracy?
What Egypt needs is an Egyptian version of Ataturk. We (i.e. non-Egyptian citizens) cannot do anything, but we speak about it.
Out of curiosity do you recognize the legitimacy of Partij voor de Vrijheid? (That's Wilders' party.) i.e. are Dutch people allowed to control their borders and be selective about immigrants?