WHAT I HEARD THE SECULAR FUNDAMENTALIST'S DID.*
I heard they shot a
fourteen year old girl in the head for challenging secular values and demanding
to be taught about Islam.
I heard that innocent
bystanders were killed, cinemas and bookstalls wrecked and death was threatened
to all believers following a film that they say denigrated Voltaire.
I heard that they burnt
down mosques and murdered Muslims.
I heard that they burnt
down synagogues and murdered Jews.
I heard they scrawled
obscene graffiti on religious graves.
I heard they said that spirituality was unnatural, an offence against reason and should be outlawed.
I heard they burned copies
of religious books that they say insulted secular values.
I heard they threatened
children with the death penalty for allegedly defacing copies of Christopher
Hitchens book God is Not Great.
I heard they are demanding
laws protecting secular sensibilities and outlawing insults to the
Enlightenment.
*Previously published but inadvertently deleted.