France, which prides itself as the harbinger of modern democracy in Europe and a forerunner to a secular intellectual society has been unable to develop an inclusive culture. Maybe the hangover of some Christian (read Churchian) legacy of intolerance? Burqua might seem an antediluvian Islamic symbol of terrorism, but can’t the French accept it as a modern fashion statement? At least in gay Paris, the fashion capital of the world? Let it learn from India the secret of its inclusive culture. The only way to go after Islamic terrorism is to challenge the Islamic claim that the Quranic way of thinking is the only valid way.
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If France is going to have a Muslim population, never mind if only miniscule (still the largest Muslim population in Europe) it might as well allow it its freedom of identity (without breaking French civil laws, of course. And ensuring idiotic French laws like 'no burqas’ are not made). And do you think all truth emits only from the Quran? I am sure you don't. So why not put the record straight and douse the fanatic zeal of the terrorists who imagine fighting to establish Islam on earth is a small mercy to mankind which would get light from nowhere else! Fears of Muslims becoming wild thus challenged and burning embassies is not becoming of any nation, least of all the great French civilization, for whom truth is the ultimate.
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Let Muslims practise their religion and maintain their religious identity. The fight is against terrorism and its basic cause. In the case of Islamic terrorism, it is the claim of Islam that its teachings alone constitute the truth. If this claim is invalidated by the sheer force of reasoning by non-Muslims or if Muslims maintain that Islam does not teach that it alone has the truth and teachings to the contrary are un-Islamic, Islamic terrorism will die a natural death.
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