saxy_jag - “But if we're to allow Christian fundamentalists to spout some of the claptrap they do, then I don't see how we're going to justify stopping Muslims from doing the same.”
Well, there's claptrap and there's claptrap. The Christian fundamentalists do spout an ordinate amount of nonsense but it has to be said that they don't claim that members of other races resemble (or are) pigs and monkeys. Nor do they claim that holy war against none believers is the only sure-fire way to enter heaven.
I'm no fan of the Catholic church (to put it mildly) but when the UK is importing Saudi Arabia's Wahhabism and teaching it to impressionable children, then multicultural tolerance has gone too far. This is a belief system that teaches that democracy is evil, that anyone who isn't a Muslim will burn forever in hell, that women are intellectually inferior to men and that homosexuality is a sin against god that should be punished by a torturous death.
http://atheism.about....icsects/a/wahhabi.htm