BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY. A France United Against Radical Islam @ The Wall Street Journal 8.1.2015

BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY. A France United Against Radical Islam @ The Wall Street Journal 8.1.2015

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Islam must be freed from radical Islam. We must say and say again: To assassinate in the name of God is to make God an assassin by association. What is needed from Islamic scholars and their many followers is a courageous statement of modernization—like the aggiornamento of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s—clearly stating that, in a democracy, forcing obeisance to the holy is an attack on the freedom of thought. They should explicitly acknowledge that in the eyes of the law, religions are systems of thought with no greater or lesser status than that of secular ideologies—and that the right to doubt them, debate them and laugh at them, like the right to join or leave them, is the inalienable right of every citizen.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernard-henri-levy-a-france-united-against-radical-islam-1420760414

P.S. Bernard-Henri Lévy is the author of "Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism".
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernard-henri-levy-a-france-united-against-radical-islam-1420760414