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Religious intolerance is inherent in all religions, otherwise it won't be a distinct religion on its own.

Even the most ecumenical religion: Bahai, can be considered to bear traits of religious intolerance as it claim to accept all religious teachers and prophets of the past, present and even of the future, but when a particular religion like Islam takes exception to the Bahai's stand and claim that Muhammad is the last prophet, the ugly head of bigotry will be raised from both opposing sides.

That said, we do not need Geert Wilder, Salman Rusdie, Nikos Kazantzakis or even Dan Brown works of facts or fiction to promote religious intolerance.

Every religion promote its level, flavor, expression and management of religious intolerance, somewhat like anything else in life, including economics and politics.

A subject and matter as subjective as religion is never science and I would ever doubt if I would treat it as an "art", it is just a matter of "beliefs" and best left to the intimate confines of the self.

Views on Islam held by liberal atheist secularist leaning people like Geert Wilder sought not to promote religious intolerance but set us thinking how irrational we can be if our whole being had been intoxicated by the opiate of religion.

Look back into history and it will be pretty obvious how much blood has been shed, lives lost and resources squandered all in the name of fighting religious wars and to think that the giant share of the insanity comes from the very people who presumably acknowledge Abraham as their common patriarch!

Catholics killing Jews, Protestants killing Catholics, Muslims killing Jews and Christians and in turn get killed by both Christians and Jews etc through the history of these so called "Abrahamic" religions who claim to worship the one and true God and seems to kill and exterminate others who believe otherwise so as to do their god a favor!

I am one who reserves my comments until I have witnessed, read or seen an event, book or movie respectively, because I do not believe in quoting something without having verified the facts myself.

Ask the many who are protesting about "Fitna the Movie", if they have watched for themselves, the movie that they are protesting against, chances are that they have not or had refused to, because their prejudice forbade them to do otherwise.

They have somewhat reasoned for themselves, albeit unreasonable and irrationally, that any movie branded by their leaders as "anti-Islam" can never be good to deserve watching.

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