Jewish/Islamic/Christian/etc state is essentially racist

Submitted by Karim (United States), Jul 21, 2013 at 23:29

Having just escaped an Islamic state, I firmly believe that a religious based state is a racist state no matter how democratic it tries to be. It has to discriminate against a minority in order to be a religious based state. Jews or Muslims can have their own state but cannot claim to be truly democratic.

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