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The crisis caused by the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed and the extreme reactions of Islamic fanatics has revealed not only the extent of the cultural divide between Western civilisation and the Islamic world, where the principle of collective responsibility is applied and no respect is shown for religious freedom, but also a serious crisis of liberal democracy. Liberal democracy has proved unable to impose the rule of law on the Muslim communities in Europe or any respect for religious freedom on Muslim states. Instead, by making freedom of speech an absolute, it has managed to cause affront to the religious sensibilities of Muslims. Freedom without responsibility inevitably leads to conflict, however.
Respect for national and religious sensibilities provides the basis for respecting the people who express them, irrespective of whether we agree with these views or not. These sensibilities must not, therefore, be offended by blasphemous representations of the cross, of Mohammed or of the victims of the Holocaust. Mr Cohn-Bendit is not right in claiming that religions become ‘de-religionised’ in the public sphere. Religion will always be different from political debate, unless, of course, it stops being a religion and becomes an ideology. A cartoon depicting Mr Cohn-Bendit is not the same as a cartoon depicting Mohammed.
We simply cannot compel other actors in the public arena to divest themselves of their religious sensitivity. Any attempt to do so will have the same consequences as the publication of the Mohammed cartoons. This is why I voted against paragraph 5 of the resolution and why I abstain from voting on the resolution as a whole, as paragraph 5 was accepted."@en1
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