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**vTLWqa1l** · 12-03-2007, 07:42 AM

Owen makes a number of important points. Western liberal tolerance should mean freedom of conscience and faith for all. It should not mean - but is in danger of meaning (in the UK, at least) - being so accommodating that a particluarly aggressive grouping is allowed to gain a degree of prevalence quite disproportionate to its numbers: one would hardly realise that Muslims are still no more than 3% of the UK population. But this is, no doubt, as Owen says, the consequence of secularisation so that our society sees nothing to defend save its liberal tolerance.

12-03-2007, 07:42 AM	#14
vTLWqa1l Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	Owen makes a number of important points. Western liberal tolerance should mean freedom of conscience and faith for all. It should not mean - but is in danger of meaning (in the UK, at least) - being so accommodating that a particluarly aggressive grouping is allowed to gain a degree of prevalence quite disproportionate to its numbers: one would hardly realise that Muslims are still no more than 3% of the UK population. But this is, no doubt, as Owen says, the consequence of secularisation so that our society sees nothing to defend save its liberal tolerance.
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