{"id":25789,"date":"2012-01-28T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/are-there-limits-on-tolerance.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:33:16","slug":"are-there-limits-on-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/are-there-limits-on-tolerance.html","title":{"rendered":"Are there limits on tolerance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, rather, what are the reasonable limits?<\/p>\n

I tend to be suspicious of any erosion of religious or (more specifically, since the burqa is not specifically mandated by Islam, and is hardly universal among majority-Islamic countries) cultural freedoms. While I understand the security (which I've written of before) concerns here, and the social ones as well, it's also a very slippery slope toward what outward expressions of religious faith or cultural heritage will be "allowed" and which ones won't. <\/p>\n

That it is being cheered by some of the more obnoxious nationalist elements in the Netherlands doesn't speak well of it either. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +John E. Bredehoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It's not a good idea to have both traditional Muslims AND<\/b> bikers mad at you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Or, rather, what are the reasonable limits? I tend to be suspicious of any erosion of religious or (more specifically, since the burqa is not specifically mandated by Islam, and is hardly universal among majority-Islamic countries) cultural freedoms. 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