Wilders’s anti-Koran proposal, revisited

In an entry written last March, I explain and agree with the underlying rationale of Geert Wilders’s proposal to ban the Koran. But I am not on board with the proposal itself. One reason is that the proposal seems to involve treating the Koran under the anti-hate speech laws, and in my view such laws need to be repealed, not expanded. Another reason is that banning the Koran would prevent us from reading it. The problem is not the Koran, the problem is the religion that follows the Koran.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 27, 2008 01:37 PM | Send