What if Europeans, because of their well-intended concern for maintaining the principle of tolerance, are becoming entangled in a paradox similar to the one Fish identified? What if, in other words, a too-strident insistence on tolerance can produce a less tolerant society? A balance needs to be struck, but European attempts to restrict what Europeans see as expressions of religious illiberalism — from bans on veils in French schools to permitting a schoolteacher to sue a Muslim man for failure to show her a respect equal to men — may push the weight on the scale of justice beyond the tipping point.
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