Excellent interview

Submitted by Phebe Intihar (United States), Dec 20, 2002 at 08:21

I thought you got the important points from your column into the Holt interview, and they were well stated. Excellent! At a time of church/state separation anxiety so profound in this country that very old stone carvings of the ten commandments and all Christian Christmas observations are prohibited near government buildings, the actual *promotion* by government of the religion of our enemies, militant Islamists, is very worrying.

I suspect that despite 9/11, it is impossible for many liberals in the U.S. to believe that we can actually have enemies that want to destroy our liberal traditions. They believe, because they are uninformed, that every religion must naturally be viewed by its adherents as "optional," as second priority to the prevailing civil order. But they are wrong......

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