01 August 2011

Is secularism to blame for Norway attacks?

.... When critics of Islam point out that the Koran contains verses that justify the subjugation of women and incite hatred toward non-Muslims, they are not doing so to be recreationally mean to people.

Rather, they do this because the importance of Koranic inerrancy and infallibility to orthodox Islamic beliefs has real consequences, especially when these beliefs are exploited by Islamists to further their own objectives.

The fact that one reasonably-literate Norwegian psychopath may agree with this concern does not make it any less true or important, nor does it remove any of the responsibility for this attack from the man himself. [National Post] Read more [via National Secular Society]