Secularism forces people to join ISIS

[hinduwoman]

who else can protect them from the big bad wolf of secular society?

A Tory cabinet minister has said that Britain’s increasingly secular society risks “pushing more young Muslims into the arms of Isis”.

Stephen Crabb, the Welsh secretary, used a speech to claim that a “hard-edged” secularism in Britain was partly to blame for “aiding and abetting” extremism, as mainstream religion is marginalised in public life.
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The minister, who has been tipped as a possible outside candidate for the next Tory leadership race, said he thought freedom of religion was now under threat, citing the case of the advertising company that refused a Church of England cinema commercial promoting the Lord’s Prayer.
In the speech, he claimed the current mood meant “faith gets squeezed further into the margins of public life and religion becomes delegitimised through suspicion, fear or ridicule”. This could have implications for the fight against Islamic extremism, Crabb suggested.
“The answer to the seduction of Isil [Isis] is not a greater dose of secularism that delegitimises their faith in the public space,” he said. “I believe the marginalisation of religion in our national life risks pushing more young Muslims into the arms of Isil.”
He said it was not a good situation if a young Muslim growing up in east London, Cardiff or Luton only saw their faith being mentioned in mainstream British media in connection with death and violence.
“This is where hard-edged secularism ... actually serves to aid and abet the extremism we are all seeking to confront. Because if you push faith to the margins, then to the margins and into the shadows faith will be outworked,” he said.
Crabb also claimed it was difficult for politicians to speak about their faith and urged others to help “renormalise” religion in public life.

It is all a part of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy and it is winning!

 

[Factinista]

Unfortunately what is true is not always the best Public Policy.

It is true that there is no reason to believe in god and it is ridiculous to believe so. It's also true that if we don't respect their idiotic religion in the public sphere the religious cry foul and react with aggression and often violence. Furthermore if we show respect for the wrong religion the other religious people cry foul and react with aggression... It's the perfect way to divide people


So were basically just screwed

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Unfortunately what is true is not always the best Public Policy.

It is true that there is no reason to believe in god and it is ridiculous to believe so. It's also true that if we don't respect their idiotic religion in the public sphere the religious cry foul and react with aggression and often violence. Furthermore if we show respect for the wrong religion the other religious people cry foul and react with aggression... It's the perfect way to divide people


So were basically just screwed

Well, it's the same with as with any other divisive criteria. You may as well say that the increasing lack of concern about race in society and the delegitimization of the notion of white power is pushing young white people into the arms of the KKK.

Some are going to react that way, but the solution isn't to put a greater emphasis on racial identity. The solution is to give even less of a shit about it and marginalize the crazies even more by increasing the number of moderates.

 

[barbos]

yeah, these dirty secularists don't allow sharia law.