Why is it that those who favor free speech, individual rights and pluralism feel nervous about telling Islamic extremists to fuck off? As Dan Savage writes, there's nothing "Islamophobic" about being afraid of Muslims who seek to impose Sharia law (which condones beheading homosexuals, for instance):
(T)he price of admission to a pluralistic, multi-ethnic society has to be… a desire to live in that place. And a desire to live and let live, and a certain base-level tolerance for people that look, pray, and fuck differently than you do. You should, of course, be free to impose Sharia on yourself and yourself alone (not your daughters, for instance), just as Christians and Jews should be free to impose the most conservative interpretations of their faiths on themselves alone.And if you’re not down with that…. if you can’t hack that… get the fuck out.
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