Free speech

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I have just been watching Geert Wilders film about Islam. There is nothing there that is new or even shocking, thought the whole thing does pack a very powerful message. Holland clearly has a big problem, with the Muslim population growing exponentially, and of course with numbers come powers and that it seems is the way in which the world is being taken over. Islam is a culture as much as a religion and as in all cultures, those with the loudest voices are the ones that make things happen.

It is all very well for moderate Muslims to claim that Islam is about love and forgiveness and tolerance, but this is indeed not the case and unless the Islamic community is prepared to become more tolerant of non Muslims, then i fear that we are entering a new and dangerous age where the rest of society will no longer tolerate Islam. Such things have happened in the past and will no doubt happen again and again.

Mr Wilder has stuck out his neck again and for that I admire him. Someone has to make a stand and say things that need to be said. Islam may not like free speech, and that is understandable when you have such shaky ground to stand on, but civilizations where people are free to speak their minds are more preferable to those where one is totally controlled by the interpretation of a book.