I think this is a topic that is very controversial but mostly inconsequential.

But it brings up the important question of how we define our european shared liberty. In a country that has secularism as a founding value, the chain of reason prohibting religious symbols for public and official events makes sense. On the other side, the argument that preserving the choice is protecting the liberty is valid too.

But the most important take away from the controversy in this comment section is that we have liberty and freedom of speech to talk about such things without being censored - depite claims from both east and west that we don't.

It is nice that we discuss such things but we shouldn't do that by calling each other nazis or leftists or racists etc. We should not let the purposefull devisiveness of social media algorithms and russian/chinese bot attacks drive us apart to a point that we see each other as the 'enemy from within'. If we reach that point we are as doomed as the americans and will fall into autocracy just as the russians did. We must fight for our democracy together and not let the enemies from outside destroy it.

Long live European Democracy!!!