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— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
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