Bo said, "when the fanatics start to assassinate what they see as "mockers of
faith" it's more than "ordinary" murder, its social value devouring
intellectual". That's true enough, but fanatics who kill to protect the faith
are expressing exactly the opposite of a multicultural attitude. Besides,
assassination is not a "cultural" value. Is there a nation on earth that does
not consider it a crime? I doubt it. There are a few good Christians in our
prison system for "assassinating" doctors that defied their religious beliefs
concerning abortion, which goes to show that criminal fanaticism can be found
in all religions and in all ethnic groups. Before 9/11, people used to joke
about the conservative Republicans by comparing them to the radical, theocratic
government of Afghanistan. They were called "the Taliban wing of Republican
Party". This little joke also goes to show how fanatics come in all sorts of
flavors. And yet they're always asserting social level values of some kin
d. Maybe that's why its absurd to imagine a fatwa being issued by Stephen
Hawking or an Inquisition in which philosophers torture people to make them
more thoughtful. So anyway, maybe it would be more accurate to say that Norway
has a problem with maladjusted religious fanatics, not Arabs or Islam as such.
I'd just point out that these fanatics are one of most conspicuous reasons to
embrace multiculturalism. Their pictures should be on the poster. They show us
what intolerance looks like, how ugly and stupid and lethal it is. The race and
religion of the criminal aren't the determining factor in the crime.
Intolerance of cultural difference is.
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