Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
I'm curious about your line of thought there
It was my understanding that the claim was being made that a state that declares itself to have an official religion, immediately denied all civil rights to members of any other faith. It was therefore argued that it might be okay to recognize Israel as having a right to exist, but not as a Jewish state. I was trying to follow this reaoning to see if it was therefore also a bad thing that other countries, like Saudi Arabia, had demanded recognition as Muslim states and if that meant that they had denied all civil rights to Christians, Jews, Buddhists, etc. What I have found, generally speaking, that that both the Arab Muslims and the Israeli Jews have a really tough time dealing with the idea that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander - or even admitting that there is a blind spot in their reasoning.
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