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Steven's avatar

If it's an evening of 'balanced' dialogue, which speaker is representing the view that Islam is not compatible with liberal democracy? It's a fairly common view and you seem to have assembled people well suited to answer it, but it's not really a debate without anyone genuinely representing the opposing side.

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form."

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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Abigail Starke's avatar

Will this be taped?

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