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OftenBen  ·  3323 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shooting in Paris

Religious extremism is a cultural disease?

I can dig that.





mk  ·  3323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps, but in the context that from their POV Western Liberalism + Capitalism is similar, and we are willing to kill to spread it. The difference is that Western Liberalism allows for a much larger degree of cultural plurality, so it's less oppressive, but not unoppressive.

OftenBen  ·  3323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't disagree.