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It's not so cut-and-dry as that, because the idea of complete freedom means you can have hate speech and hateful religions. George Carlin once proved this point
by unalone 18y ago
It's not so cut-and-dry as that, because the idea of complete freedom means you can have hate speech and hateful religions. George Carlin once proved this point emphatically by screaming the word "nigger" repeatedly, with the intent of having people less shocked at words. One thing he constantly would talk about in his routines is the idea that words lose power the more you use them, and that it's a bad thing to let a bad word have power over you.
Similarly, a person's religion is their choice. It should be wrong to discriminate based on religion, so long as you don't reverse discriminate as well. If a woman wants to wear a hijab, so long as it is her choice and nobody else's, she should be allowed. While you might argue that it's encouraging a phallocentric religion - and I'd agree - the solution isn't banning that religion, it's spreading reason far and wide so that more people make the choice to leave it.