The battle for the obvious

Written by Nick C. Dew
Elsewhere, these issues are considered to be untied from the age of Enlightenment. In our country, we are still debating this. The…
freedom of religion is a feature of advanced societies. Are we not one?
Dearly, have a nice day!
The vote in favour of the provision for the erection of a muslim mosque in Votanikos, yesterday, with a broad parliamentary majority, rescues –or at least helps in this direction – the position and role of our country in the so-called “advanced world”.
In the community of the member, i.e., which have exceeded the divisions on the basis of color, race, religion and, of course, of ideas and where the fundamental human rights, as minorities, are protected.
Anything less is, quite simply, not enough. It would constitute a setback in the dark ages.
Cause, I don’t, dolorous impression that a part of the majority government, the party of “Independent Greeks” -with the notable exception of K. Ζουράρι – voted against the provision, by means of which, in the end, the capital of the country is even a place of religious worship.
Respectively, shall respond to reasonable questions about the composition and quality of the government’s majority, the fact that the only other party that voted against the provision that was the Golden Dawn…
The mere fact that in the midst of a major refugee crisis that Europe has experienced since the second World War, which primarily concerns people of the muslim faith, the Athens has an official place of worship of that faith, is an obvious deficit, which any modicum of democratic government ought to cover it.
Any government conscious of the fundamental importance of freedom of religion and the observance of any religious faith or its absence.
Items such as these are the things that differentiate the advanced states and societies that composed it, from the backwardness and obscurantism.
This case obviously deals with issues that they ought even to do not exist today in our country. The obvious of those issues began to find their solution in the West with the Enlightenment and for which –apparently – we even debating.
The 230 members of SYRIZA, the new democracy, the Greek COMMUNIST party, the River, and the Union Of the, which voted last the particular provision literally did last goes without saying.
That element, i.e., that is self-evidently correct, and for which they had no doubts, objections or contentions.
Nevertheless, objections were voiced by the most backward, most extreme part of the parliament.
Whether these forces reflect a part of our society, or not, failed to be credited, first, that anyway the religious faith will find a way of expression, and secondly, that if this does not become “institutionalised”, it will be… in secret.
Because informal mosques, apparently there are already in Athens, while licenses have been given to another four mosques throughout the Territory, one of which is in Thebes.
Ultimately, as the minister of Education.Friend aptly asked during yesterday’s debate in the House of commons, “those who disbelieve for the construction of the mosque and is in favour of religious freedom, to think about what’s best, an informal mosque or a mosque with a name and a VAT id?”.
As you rightly pointed out, mr Friend, it would be a “disgrace to the country and a danger to the safety of” the existence of informal mosques.
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