The right to be stupid

As much as it pains me to say this, the government has no place trying to dictate the teachings of any stupid superstition religion. The proposals to do so are wrong. Islamism is psychotic, many of regular Islam’s teachings are disgusting and have no place in British society. But you cannot put a policeman into somebody's head and should not try. If people want to believe stupid things then that is a matter for them and them alone. If they want to, non-violently, promote these weird beliefs then that too must be acceptable. Just as it should be acceptable to highlight and ridicule the nonsense they spout. The nonsense would not be able to stand up to the light of reason and be pushed aside.

Unfortunately the politically correct world that we live in has decided that ridiculing nonsense is taboo, so the natural check on the spread of Islamism (that it is obviously violent, repressive and stupid) has been curtailed. Wanting to stop the spread of Islamism, but not allowing the natural social checks on it, government's only option is to regulate. Hence this latest Thought Crime. Not that this government are particularly adverse to creating Thought Crimes at the best of times.