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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 think you're confusing liberalism with laissez-faire anarchy. Liberalism imposes restrictions on liberty to preserve greater liberties, and clamping down on radical Islam (which is a threat to things like the right to life) is a defense of liberalism, not a betrayal of it.