Answer to Nadir Ahmed: re your plea for Moral Neutrality

Reader comment on item: The Snipers: Crazy or Jihadis?
in response to reader comment: Muslims as patriotic citizens?

Submitted by Harald Waage (Norway), Oct 31, 2002 at 03:17

Nadir Ahmed (nadirwashere@hotmail.com), wrote on October 29, 2002 at 11:02:

"Do Muslims have to be patriotic to be 'ok'? Can we just be neutral citizens? Do we really have to subscribe to the self centered ideology of patriotism?"

Answer:
No you do most emphatically not have to defend liberty from the attacks of savages. Leave that to the rest of us who value freedom and understand what is at stake.

We will also protect your right to speech, even if it is just drivel.

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