Response

My honourable friend posting at:http://spud85.blogspot.com/ has raised the issue of religious extremeism. His view is that people that use their religious influence to spread hate messages are generally not very nice people. I have to say that I agree with this view, however I do not agree that these people should be prevented from preaching. My reasons for this are thus:

If people are allowed to preach then they are seen and not subvertive. If they are public they can be publicy ridiculed and people can choose to not take them seriously. You force them to hide and suddenly they are alot more dangerous. If people know about them then they are forearmed and recruitment for such people is kept to a minimum.

Laughter is the best weapon against these people.