In this case, I was talking about people. Adults, which I thought were the metaphoric children in your example.

Yes. Except that while you interpreted NOT letting anyone go into the dog pen as being a nanny state, you didn’t consider the reverse. You said that it would be taking away the people’s right to choose. However that’s what’s already happening. People don’t have the choice to not go into the metaphoric dog pen or not to have the dogs released into the wild. Under the banner of multiculturalism, governments force their citizens to accent people from other countries that they may not want. They accept huge numbers of migrants and immigrants even when doing so has been shown to be detrimental to the wellbeing of the country and its people.

>Regarding the dog pit, any dog park full of dogs presents risk of bites and infections. Here in California, the risk is low enough that I can let a toddler hang out with dogs in a dog park with little worry.

And if there was about a 90% chance that at least one of the dogs had rabies? Would you still let the toddler hang out with them?

>That is to say a person can study whatever they want, including ideologies that might be considered dangerous by others such as Islam or Marxism.

If people just studied such things in an isolated, logical manner, that wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, that’s not what’s happening in the world. Ideologies such as Islam are being taught by people who have their own warped view of what it means and how it should be interpreted. It’s not so much studying as being indoctrinated. Are you honestly going to tell me that a muslim, living in a predominantly muslim community, going to a muslim school, hanging out with muslim friends, having the warped ideals of Islam drilling into them on a daily basis, is going to look at Islam objectively and compare it to other religions?

>Prohibition of speech (or publication, or religious practice) of any sort based on the notion that someone could be radicalized by it presumes that people do not control themselves and their destinies, which renders the notion of crime and punishment inert.

So you’re saying that being raised from birth to believe that you’re one of the chosen people, that everyone who doesn’t follow your religion is an infidel, that women shouldn’t have rights and that homosexuals deserve to die, is the same as Jimmy Whitebread hearing about how great Islam is?

>But Muslims are not the only ones prone to violence.

Have you seen the video of muslims practically rioting after Lars Vilks showed them a video that they found offensive? How about the videos of the large-scale muslim protests over the Innocence of Muslims video on YouTube? Or the videos of muslims throwing rocks at christians, both in the US and other countries? How about the muslim who attacked people on a train in Germany with an axe? Or the muslim who stabbed three young girls and their mother in France for being “scantily” dressed? Or the muslim rapist in Britain who got off because his muslim lawyer successfully argued that he came from a different culture and didn’t realize that rape wasn’t appropriate behavior and also that no permanent harm was done to the victim? He went on to rape and beat two more women. Or the muslim stabbings in Canada?

Would you like me to post links to videos of muslim gangs beating people in Eruope? Muslims proclaiming that the native populations of those countries better get ready to accept Islam because it’s coming whether they like it or not? How about a video of muslims lighting a public Christmas tree on fire? Burning cars? Assaulting the police? Screaming “Death to America!”? Muslim patrols in Britain hassling people for things like drinking or wearing sexy clothes? Maybe a video of news crews being assaulted by muslims for just filming in the area?

>More importantly, there are plenty of Muslims would would not respond aggressively, who would just suffer my bigotry, or would tell me that what I’m wearing hurts their feelings.

Why don’t you ask the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists about the peaceful muslim response to their work? Oh wait, you can’t because they’re dead.

Maybe 99% of the muslims wouldn’t hurt you for burning a koran (even though I think that figure is overly optimistic), but the remaining 1% would happily slit your throat the moment your back was turned. That’s a problem.

>Regardless, they’re super rare, and they aren’t conspicuously Muslim.

Like the huge crowd of men/boys in the middle east cheering on a song about Bin Laden? Like a cleric conducting a survey of 200+ (peaceful) muslim men and every single one of them raising their hand to the question of how many of them think that the punishments listed in the koran, like stoning and the chopping off of hands, should be favored over any other law? Like the women interviewed on middle eastern TV saying how proud they are of their sons for having “martyred” themselves in suicide bombings? Let me know if you want links for any of these videos.

>Just as Christians can decide they don’t require absolution from a priest for salvation, Muslims can decide they don’t need to wage war against the Infidel.

And for the ones who DO decide that they need to wage war against the infidels?

Islam as a whole is a violent, intolerant ideology. I know it’s not politically correct to say that, but it’s the truth. Maybe some muslims living in Beverly Hills and going to a fancy college are happy integrating into American society and accepting our values, but that’s not what’s happening in the world at large. Muslim immigrants in countries like Britain and Denmark are forming ghettos where the Islamic way of life can be enforced and promoted. They don’t assimilate, they don’t integrate, they occupy.

And do you think that muslims in Islamic countries are being taught tolerance and peace? Because if that’s case, how do you explain things like honor killings, rape victims being stoned to death by mobs, gays being publicly executed, women being treated like property, riots breaking out over cartoons or videos that they find offensive, and the increase in violent attacks and sexual assaults being committed by muslim immigrants?