It's quite incredible how progressives defend Islam. The self-deceiving needed is pathological. They are teetering on the edge of insanity.

As a religious person I would prefer an Islamic take-over to an atheistic State any day, but let's be clear that Islamic democracy is not liberal democracy (that democracy where minorities are not coerced in the private sphere), and Islamic 'peace' is very much on their own terms and not in a "love your enemies and do good to them who do ill to you" kind of way of Christianity.

The wonderful irony, however, is that equality dogmas and anti-discrimination laws have heralded the end of liberal democracy in the so-called "Free West". Apart from a few hold out States in the US, the West has embraced the dictatorship of the Equality fanatics.

"It's a free country", no it isn't.