Conversion is fine, suppression is not

Submitted by Lars Nielsen (Denmark), Jan 7, 2007 at 18:28

I don't agree with Octavio, when he says that muslims cannot be good europeans, because they want to convert other people. Of course they should do so. That is the meaning of free speech, that you are allowed to express your opinion in order to convince other people, so they change their minds.

But muslims do not want to convert other people by arguments, and they certainly don't want to hear the opinion of other people. They simply want to suppress all other opinions by force. Therefore, their religion should be forbidden.

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