"In 1930s Europe, a conflict was taking shape among three factions - (1) Communists; (2) Nazis and other fascists; (3) supporters of liberal democracy. Back then, many in the West wrote off liberal democracy, saying it stood no chance in the face of two powerful and dynamic totalitarian ideologies. But World War II and the Cold War proved them wrong; U.S. troops whose memory we honor proved them wrong. Among those troops were believers in a wide variety of religions as well as agnostics and atheists. They weren't fighting for any given faith - they were fighting for the freedoms set down in the world's first secular Constitution. Today, Europeans who cherish those same freedoms seem destined to face a strikingly similar challenge in the twin foes of Islamist jihad and far-right Christian nativism," - Bruce Bawer, author of "While Europe Slept."If there's one point that I keep coming back to, it's the duality of religious fundamentalism. Christianity is exactly the same as Islam in terms of it's dangerous influence in government. We recognize that, and we will oppose it equally. I just hope the secularists in Europe have the will to throw political correctness out the window and call it what it is.. insanity.. just the same as we must do in the United States.
The secular Constitution of the United States must be the model.
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