You are quite wrong to say this, since it is very simple.
Yes, they are Christians, but they are not extremist in any way.
How can you tell what version of all interpretions of the bible they believe in?
And you're talking about removing civil liberties. Then look at France, quite a big country and you know what ? People aren't even allowed to dress how they want in public. Religious people of any faith aren't allowed to wear their clothes, clothes which they have worn for generations. They can't by law wear them. And you're saying only religion will take civil liberties away.
I read about the law. I cannot say that I care. It's your authoritys decision what you can wear or not, and I see no reason why religion or political ideologies need to be treated with some form of exalted respect above everybody else. We sure do not give any respect to neonazis to use the swastika which have been forbidden around here for quite some time.
Spread there ? Yes, maybe, no. They've been there for more than 400 years. Ever since the Spanish and Portuguese settled in South America.
You're right about being aware of political movements globally. What about Great Britain bringing armed men on the street for 'protection' of its civilians after the bombings and stopped bombings. Great Britain isn't really so religious, they have a socialist party at its top. All the arrests being made now... Are you telling me those are not invasions of civil liberties?
UK is basicly in a political civil war regarding religious rights and it will take awhile to see who's the winner. A law has been presented that will reintroduce toughtcrimes, sodomy and reduce freedom of speech to please islam. It will take effect in 1-2 years unless rebuked. You have actual terror from Islam there as well. Several british schools received books with Intelligent Design before the school board banned the books right before christmas last year. Then you have, luckily, a rather strong atheism lobby. Earlier this year atheists from all over UK gathered money to buy copies of "The God Delusion" to send to every politician in their government. It took less than 2 months to gather enough money to buy the several hundred books needed. In a recent UK poll a majority voted that religion cause more harm than good although we ofcourse need to take such polls with a grain of salt. There have also been several british atheist documentaries on national television recently which have increased peoples awareness.
But I'm not saying 'it's people', I'm saying 'it's extremism'.
Every child have the potential of being an extremist. It's all depending on what they are learnt.
So, you mean to say they'll bomb Sweden because it's an atheistic country ?
There have been quite a few comments regarding sweden coming from the extreme groups which is uncomfortable.
So do most people in Belgium and in the rest of the world, including the US.
Not according to the polls.
Not really. Atheism as a sense of belief is quite new to the public. Not every one knows exactly what it stands for yet. AND if it stands for anti-religion fanaticism then people won't vote for atheists.
What does worry me is that so few people still wouldn't vote for homosexuals and that there are substantially less people who would vote for a woman.
There is a negative attachment to the word which is why many try to find different names to call themselves. Secular humanists, brights, disbeliever, sceptic, rationalist etc.
Im pretty proud over our recent group of leaders. Many of our top ministers are women, our finance minister is openly gay, our integrations minister is black, female and believe openly that Islam is dangerous. Our school minister also wants to abolish the right to open faithschools to radical groups. The only party who are against homosexual weddings (christian democrats) have less than 4% of the voters, however, the christian democrats have nothing against stemcell research or abortions. The first upgrade they did in our school curricilum was to make sure that children of today learned more about the dangers of communism.
If you're talking about scientists, no. About corporations, I do though.
Corporations gladly find people with academic titles to support them yes. I am not so happy about that, but at least it's considered unethic and they risk their careers.
I think it was just a year ago that they declared a third mistrial in the case against John Gotti Jr., the son of John Gotti, leader of the Gambino family IIRC.
I even used to know people who were working in the Falconplein in Antwerpen. It used to be a place where you could get anything you wanted cheaper, since everything was stolen, just as you see in the mob movies and series. They hijacked trucks full of electronics and just sold them in their stores. After 20 years of successful business, most of them moved out of the country since the police were at last catching some of them. So, no, they're not really keeping criminals out.
There's a difference between getting them in and throwing them out. We usually throw out leaders who misbehave. We have regulations on the regulators and when that do not help we have democracy on top of it.
