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Imagine the harm a group of those fanatics can achieve if one student can make a whole University comply to his intolerant whims. Karl Popper famously said that an open and tolerant society must manage carefully the intolerant... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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You realize there are 2 million Muslims living in America without any problem right? Take your bigotry elsewhere, HN is typically more elevated than that.

I read the GP comment more charitably than that in the context of the thread in general terms.

More like "if one arbitrary student (of no particular description) can cause this much damage, how much damage can multiple like-minded students (of any particular alliance) cause?" And that question would apply to secularists Muslims Christians etc. equally.

Not necessarily "if one Muslim can do this, how much damage can lots of Muslims do?"

But maybe I'm wrong? I could see how you got that impression upon rereading the comment.

That's not targeting Muslims, that's targeting fanatics of all ideologies.

I have no qualms with Muslims anywhere. However I despise fanatics be they Muslims or Christians or Jews or whatever religion. I hate equally the Talibans, the Ayatollahs, the Zionist far-right in Israel, the racist nationalist Hindus, and the crazy racist Bible-thumpers in the US.

But not one single of them asked the university to readmit the teacher. None emailed or marched in front of the university to support the teacher. This is a big part of the real problem.

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