Espresso Lahore protest

[Southie]

Re: Espresso Lahore protest

@chaibiskut

Militant secularists, as I understand it, systematically deny the relevance of religion in social life. e.g. Iran under the Shah, where any public display of religious belief was illegal. Some New Atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens express the same ideas - albeit politically motivated - to target minorities. It involves general - often selective - hostility towards religion/God. Perhaps it’s useful to avoid looking at this in terms of a political spectrum that goes from right to left, where secularism is a preserve of the Left. (Secular conservatives exist). The American dichotomy generally offers secular liberals vs religious conservatives. Elsewhere, liberals and secularists might be at odds with each other. A liberal might support the right to wear western clothes and the hijab while an extreme secularist might call on the state to ban the hijab. Since being secular may be necessary but not sufficient to make one a liberal, I find it useful to distinguish the two.

Good stuff. I read it twice for it to sink in.

( just as an aside - Christopher hutchns was a secular conservative)