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Could the resistance to freedom of speech simply be because there is little exposure to any other viewpoint, and therefore nothing to stimulate civilised debate and discussion?
For example, I've been trying for a few months now to find a single bookshop that has a section for popular science (anything written by scientists such as Darwin, Dawkins, Gould, Hawkins, Watson, Wiseman, etc...), and had no joy (on a side note it's no wonder that Qatar is ranked second from the bottom on the PISA 'Quality of Science education' tables).
Symbols of other faiths are banned from public display (i.e. no crosses on the top of a church) and there is no significant attempt to educate children in the customs and beliefs of other faiths.
Is all we need some education, in order to stop breeding people such as advocate, who see opposing views as mutually exclusive to their own (let's not forget that I'm not only referring to Muslims; Bush also indicated he saw things much the same way)? Could Education leed to a greater tolerance of those deemed "different" therefore making peace a little more realistic?
Back on topic...
Could the resistance to freedom of speech simply be because there is little exposure to any other viewpoint, and therefore nothing to stimulate civilised debate and discussion?
For example, I've been trying for a few months now to find a single bookshop that has a section for popular science (anything written by scientists such as Darwin, Dawkins, Gould, Hawkins, Watson, Wiseman, etc...), and had no joy (on a side note it's no wonder that Qatar is ranked second from the bottom on the PISA 'Quality of Science education' tables).
Symbols of other faiths are banned from public display (i.e. no crosses on the top of a church) and there is no significant attempt to educate children in the customs and beliefs of other faiths.
Is all we need some education, in order to stop breeding people such as advocate, who see opposing views as mutually exclusive to their own (let's not forget that I'm not only referring to Muslims; Bush also indicated he saw things much the same way)? Could Education leed to a greater tolerance of those deemed "different" therefore making peace a little more realistic?