Reply #51: Unfortunately, Ma'am

[The Magistrate]

The trotting out of the "colonialist" excuse is getting awfully old. In this case particularly, since that brief episode was preceded by centuries of Moslem imperialism in which non-Moslems were subjected to a range of second-class citizenships, and a number of indigenous religions and religious practices expunged by Moslem overlords.

The problem remains a very simple one: no adherent of any religion has the slightest right, nor even the slightest reason, to expect that persons who do not share that religious belief will abide by its dictates, and any person who so far forgets or remains ignorant of this as to demand that they do so is wrong.