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Why Warsi is wrong: secularism does not share the traits of totalitarianism
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by Jeremy Dobson under national |
In Britain, the debate over secularism has started to permeate into the political classes. The unelected Baroness Warsi, an influential Muslim and the coalition’s “Minister with Portfolio” (whatever that title means), has denounced secularism in her recent speech to the Vatican, calling it “militant” and “aggressive.” Is she right? I wonder when the tabloids will reveal that the National Secular Society and British Humanist Association, with Dawkins as leader, are going to storm London as part as of some military Whitehall putsch. Damn it, I gave the game away! Embedded within her dry shameless prose, she declared: ” … [Secularism] demonstrates similar traits to totalitarian regimes – denying people the right to a religious identity.” This, her most sordid innuendo,… more
