I agree, but it will be difficult to do.
I think GIS makes a valid point about the expectation by secularists -- read: non-Christians -- that Muslims will respect any decision they make to reject Islam as well. Islamism is worse than Nazism. The Nazis pretended to embrace Christianity while trying to be stealthy about inserting the Nazi doctrine into the German Lutheran church first, and then other churches later. Islam refuses to compromise, declaring "Convert or die!"
On the other hand, I reject the notion that it was a wise move to remove the poster, and it was an even worse move for the professor who put it up to apologize for doing so. It denies the absolutism regarding free speech and free expression that is displayed in this morning's edition of Charlie Hebdo. The cartoonists there refused to be intimidated, even by the brutal cold-blooded slaughter of their compatriots last week. To be sure, it may cost them their lives as well, but there are some things other than Christ worth dying for, His message being as much about freedom as it was about forgiveness and turning from sin.
I think GIS makes a valid point about the expectation by secularists -- read: non-Christians -- that Muslims will respect any decision they make to reject Islam as well. Islamism is worse than Nazism. The Nazis pretended to embrace Christianity while trying to be stealthy about inserting the Nazi doctrine into the German Lutheran church first, and then other churches later. Islam refuses to compromise, declaring "Convert or die!"
On the other hand, I reject the notion that it was a wise move to remove the poster, and it was an even worse move for the professor who put it up to apologize for doing so. It denies the absolutism regarding free speech and free expression that is displayed in this morning's edition of Charlie Hebdo. The cartoonists there refused to be intimidated, even by the brutal cold-blooded slaughter of their compatriots last week. To be sure, it may cost them their lives as well, but there are some things other than Christ worth dying for, His message being as much about freedom as it was about forgiveness and turning from sin.