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#5 — After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Free Speech and Freedom of Religion

There is no balance to be struck. Freedom of each never infringes on freedom of religion. The moslem world simply has to get used to free speech winning. We should make no apologies for this. But there are several double standards that are quite harmful on this point. For instance, it is illegal in france and germany and a few other countries in western europe to deny the holicoust. That's a bad law. There shouldn't be a law against this kind of idiocy. And making this category of speech illegal is a terrible mistake. Islamisten and liberals are using this mistake as a basis to condemn the so called hypocrisy of all the people who

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