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To: Karl B
Excellent thinking, Karl. (I should have said, "N'est ce pas," shouldn't I?)

Of course it is absurd to suggest that cathedrals and churches be converted to mosques. I used that reductio ad absurdum to indicate the absurdity of allowing France to be overrun by Muslims, to say nothing of actually constructing mosques for them.

Freedom of religion is one of the basic freedoms of Western Civilization, and France, more than most, has learned that lesson the hard way.

However, the necessity of limiting freedom in order for it to exist is just as basic and is, in fact, even more important, because without this our freedoms will cease to exist.

To place no restraints on freedom of religion, and to allow France to be overrun by Muslims who have no intention of allowing freedom of religion and who will, in a matter of time, outlaw freedom of religion, illustrates the point.

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic."
--U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1919)
Some take this further and say that it doesn't give one the right to burn the theatre down either.

Unless the Western nations wake up soon, come to their senses, realize that even the most basic freedoms must be limited, and halt Muslim immigration--and unless they do it fast--they will either become Islamic theocracies or battlegrounds of opposing religions or both.

It will be one of histories greatest miracles if the Muslim threat becomes a catalyst for the renaissance of Christianity in the West, especially in Europe and North America.

It will be an even greater miracle if this re-energized Christianity reaches the millions of souls in the Islamic world and saves them from their misguided dark night of madness.

68 posted on 01/19/2003 5:58:25 AM PST by Savage Beast
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