After blaming the 24 hour cable news cycle, the Paris Olympics made a fatuous and deceitful statement:
“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps told a press conference.
“We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense we are really sorry.”
Further, the Newsmax article said:
“France, while proud of its rich Catholic heritage, also has a long tradition of secularism and anti-clericalism. Blasphemy is not only legal, but also considered by many as an essential pillar of freedom of speech”.
Well, it seems to be highly selective speech freedom practiced in Paris. The ever-courageous free speaking French “artists”, you will note, did not mock or blaspheme any religion which decapitates such free speech practitioners. Christians and Jews are safe subjects for ridicule. I await their road trip to Riyadh and Tehran. The survivors will surely be feted.
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I said to a friend yesterday those Amish are always creating trouble and mayhem
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And we all understand the reason for this. As of 2020, >10% of the population of France was Muslim. Another 50% are irreligious. As Taleb explained, an intolerant minority will always prevail. Islam is the one-way street of religions.
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“Once you have ten percent or more women at a party, you cannot serve only beer. But most men will drink wine. So you only need one set of glasses if you serve only wine — the universal donor, to use the language of blood groups.”
But had my neighbor been a Sunni Salafi, he would have required the entire room to be eating Halal. Perhaps the entire building. Perhaps the entire town. Hopefully the entire country. Hopefully the entire planet.
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The black-and-white character of these societal laws can be explained with the following. Assume that under a certain regime, when you mix white and dark blue in various combinations, you don’t get variations of light blue, but dark blue. Such a regime is vastly more likely to produce dark blue than another rule that allows more shades of blue.
We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world.
So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities. It is not permissible to use “American values” or “Western principles” in treating intolerant Salafism (which denies other peoples’ right to have their own religion). The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.
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The principle has wide applicability.
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