If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To understand "progress": all places we call ugly are both man-made and modern (Newark), never natural or historical (Rome).

Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, it will eventually destroy our world. So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities. Simply, they violate the Silver Rule. It is not permissible to use “American values” or “Western principles” in treating intolerant Salafism (which denies other peoples’ right to have their own religion). The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.

Self-contradiction is made culturally to be shameful, a matter that can prove disastrous in science.