&gt; no matter where but that freedom of speech automatically implies freedom of religion and so it&#x27;s here to stay and will have to be accommodated, in all its forms?<p>Depends on the way to go.<p>If you&#x27;re going for 100% freedom of speech then you&#x27;ll have to accept things like the WBC or Neonazi hate speech<p>Now if you&#x27;re going for what happens in Europe then going agains hate speech should work for all forms of hate speech, <i>including</i> hate towards any groups and the country itself. Tolerance goes both ways.<p>&gt; Note that there is a fairly direct line between the Iraq invasion (which France was adamantly against, remember the &#x27;surrender monkeys&#x27; and the &#x27;Freedom Fries&#x27;?), and the attacks in Paris.<p>Yes, and I agree with the correlation, but they were against it and got the short stick first.<p>So damned if you do, damned if you don&#x27;t? Might as well do it then<p>&gt; Action begets reaction, so before you react without considering the consequences you should hold still.<p>I agree. But you can&#x27;t predict all consequences. Saddam was a ruthless dictator but he kept the other ruthless wanna-be dictators in check.