WSJ: Geert Wilders: 'Our Culture Is Better'

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whatever said:
I'm an agnostic/atheist, so I have a problem with any religious violence. The problem is that the current devout Muslim philosophy of treating women as second class citizens and using violence to silence dissent puts the Muslim religion about where Christianity was 2000 years ago.

This leaves them open to criticism from people like Geert Wilders. A religion that promotes violence against any critics deserves all the criticism it gets, as far as I'm concerned.

Religion is bad enough, but the ones that attempt to silence dissent are the worst. Muslim's have used violence while Scientology uses money. Both are wrong.

Try 500 years ago. The Islam is only 500 years younger then Christianity and changing rapidly. Even in Iran, the young people are quickly becoming more and more moderate despite the iron will of the grand Ayatolla. This moderation speeds up even further as the technology to communicate around the globe increases and people see what other cultures do.

If anything I wouldn't be surprised that, like in Europe is happening with Christianity now, 300 years from now the mosque's are growing more and more empty.