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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
These two are intertwined. Liberal values are good universally, but liberal policies are impotent, specifically. Look at France and its probably most liberal immigration policies. At a certain critical mass, the Islamic immigration and the radical element in it become too important to ignore. What next: do you change immigration policies to selective profiling (illiberal), do you change multiculturalism policies to forceful assimilation and integration (illiberal) or do you change religious tolerance policies (illiberal) to confront the radical Islam? Each angle of attack could be successful and, in combination, probably would be successful. But each one of them is not a permitted weapon in the Liberalism arsenal.
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I suppose where I disagree with you is that I do not think there is anything particularly appealing or enduring about radical Islam. So yes, we will confront it - on a multitude of fronts - but like other crappy "-isms", it seems most likely to fail on its own. At its core, it's mostly nihilistic in my view, which doesn't exactly make the here and now more palatable for most people.