I think you have hit on the major topic that defines our time. These days with a transient global workforce and easy international travel cultures and religions clash constantly.

Conservatives like Howard want to preserve the past. They want a predominantly white Australia with an Anglo Saxon culture. There are many in America and the UK and the rest of Europe who want the same thing. The values of a culture should be preserved. Values like, free speech, separation of church and state etc but within the limits of the constitution of a country you should be able to do what you like without censure from bitter old dinasaurs.

I think Vasquez is spot on though. If you want freedom and tolerance you have to give up political correctness. It seems like a fair trade to me.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi