Lester Golden
3 min readMay 10, 2024

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Voltaire: "Beware of the great simplifiers."

I haven't read "Toleranz Paradoxon", but am familiar with the concept. Liberalism must sometimes use illiberal means to defend itself. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Sherman burned a 50 mile wide swath of Georgia between Atlanta and Savannah.

WWII was won by British brains, Soviet blood and American industrial muscle. Faust would have understood the bargain.

The atomic bombings kept Japan undivided and the Soviets out of Hokkaido.

Demographic protectionism to exclude jihadi death cultists and shariah peddling fanatics out of Europe is totally justified. Calling this Islamophobia is utterly idiotic civilizational suicide.

The problem is that no cult, whether Japanese Bushido, the Palestinian/Hezbollah/Houthi/Iranian jihadi death cult, or the MAGidiots loosens its hold until total apocalyptic defeat. Short of that its bubble, like a financial bubble, doesn't burst.

https://medium.com/@ljgolden55/an-ill-fitting-suit-islam-vs-secular-government-and-individualism-3dcf0e577468

As always, Jews are the canary in the coal mine of the Toleranz Paradoxon. The cognitive bias of the recency effect made us think of our anomalous postwar holiday from history as normal. We need to redefine the current global pogrom as the historical norm that will require some rather nasty illiberal measures to defang.

Here's the contract every Muslim immigrant to Europe should agree to on video. Its clauses that all theocrats, of whatever religion, will find difficult to swallow. Only a contract can solve the 2015 Collision in Cologne that Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud wrote about in "The Sexual Misery of the Arab World": “People in the West are discovering, with anxiety and fear, that sex in the Muslim world is sick, and that the disease is spreading to their own lands.”:

1. Groups don’t have rights, only individuals.

2. Secular constitutions supersede all religious law (Sharia, Koranic, Catholic canon law, Mosaic law). All satire of religious belief is protected speech. Religion as an ideology and belief system enjoys no special exemption from satire, ridicule, insult and open debate. Blasphemy is not a valid legal concept.

3. Absolute freedom of conscience in religion. All individuals, including all your family members, have the right to convert to another religion or no religion.

4. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal and criminal.

5. Women have equal rights under the law. Your female children over the state’s age of consent have the right to marry, partner and have sexual relations with whom they choose, of a different religion or of no religion. Your female children have the right not to marry. Coercive arranged marriage is illegal. Child marriage is illegal.

6. Family honor is not a valid legal concept. Muslims in the West must explicitly renounce family honor as a legal concept and acknowledge the illegality of honor killing.

7. Wife-beating is illegal. Wives, and daughters over 18, have absolute freedom of choice in dress. Male relatives have no legal right to limit female family members’ freedom of choice in dress. (Only this taboo-breaker can solve the problem Daoud wrote about: “ Clothing is also given to extremes: At one end is the burqa, the orthodox full-body covering; at the other is the hijab moutabaraj (“the veil that reveals”), which combines a head scarf with slim-fit jeans or tight pants. On the beach, the burqini confronts the bikini.”)

8. Homosexuality and homosexual relations are legal and homosexuals have equal legal rights. If you own a business you have no legal right to refuse employment to a qualified homosexual applicant or service to a homosexual customer because of his or her sexual orientation.

9. Holocaust denial is illegal hate speech.

10. Antisemitic speech is a hate crime punishable by imprisonment.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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