Most...'religiously fair' country

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2007-10-04 01:00pm

Ok...this sounds damn weird, but which country is most fair in a sense like...the majority will NOT try and force their view on the minority?

If you are muslim, atheist, christians, or buddhist, no one will say too much on how you must convert or anything...

And government policy is less influenced by religion...but by a more rational and fair thinking...

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2007-10-04 01:05pm

Sweden? They are first in most damn things.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-04 01:07pm

Maybe Holland.

Although there appears to be a vicious anti-Muslim backlash growing among their politicos there.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-10-04 01:52pm

I'm partial, but I'd say Sweden (and the other Nordic countries).

Post by **Edi** » 2007-10-04 02:00pm

The Nordic countries, probably. Even though the church is fairly prominent here, it has been decoupled from the state and freedom of religion is mandated in the constitution and so long as you don't break the laws, you are allowed to worship (or not worship) as you please. I imagine it's much the same in Sweden, Norway and Denmark as well as probably in Holland too.

Prometheus Unbound · Post by **Prometheus Unbound** » 2007-10-04 02:12pm

The UK?

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2007-10-04 02:33pm

Kanastrous wrote:Maybe Holland.

Although there appears to be a vicious anti-Muslim backlash growing among their politicos there.

It's not so much anti-Muslim as it is anti-fundamentalist fucktard, with endless (and fruitless) debate in parliament over how you should formulate 'fundamentalist fucktard' without hurting the precious feelings of all other Muslims not included in that category. Which I guess makes sense if you want to avoid alienating them and/or driving them into the arms of the aforementioned fundamentalists, but it gets rather tiresome nonetheless.

Admittedly there is one prominent right-winger cashing in on the 'zomg teh muslims' scare--and sometimes he even has a point somewhere, but his 'solutions' to those problems seem to have been copied directly from the Fascism 101 textbook. I his popularity more as a publicity thing than a serious problem though--his movement can hardly be called truly significant and his constituency consists mostly of protest swingvotes.

Anyway though, my gut feeling is the Scandinavians have us beat on this one. I haven't heard of any religiously inspired problems up there in, like, ever (well apart from the whole cartoon business, but that don't count.)

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-04 02:38pm

Are we talking about Big-Haired Politician Guy?

I'm sorry, that probably describes more than one politician in Holland (and plenty elsewhere) but what I remember most about the close-immigration-and-deport-the-Muslims pol I saw interviewed, was his outrageously amazing shock of white hair...

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2007-10-04 02:43pm

That's exactly the one. Geert Wilders, the dude is called. His solution to 'a part of the Muslim population is radicalizing (or was already radical and we just didn't notice before)' appears to be 'DEPORT ALL MUSLIMS!'

Guess how that went over with the Muslim moderates...

Atlan · Post by **Atlan** » 2007-10-04 03:38pm

SiegeTank wrote: That's exactly the one. Geert Wilders, the dude is called. His solution to 'a part of the Muslim population is radicalizing (or was already radical and we just didn't notice before)' appears to be 'DEPORT ALL MUSLIMS!'

Guess how that went over with the Muslim moderates...

Don't forget 'BAN THE KORAN!!!!'...

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2007-10-04 05:22pm

New York.

...wait, you mean it's not a separate country?

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-04 05:45pm

We're working on it.

The Constitution lays out rules for secession; what we're trying to figure out here, ismore like expulsion...

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2007-10-04 07:53pm

Mr Bean wrote:Sweden? They are first in most damn things.

What, like suicide?