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This proposed Muslim march through Wootton Bassett - should it be prevented? It will certainly be offensive to many people, and it will certainly be provocative - that indeed is their purpose in marching. But is that reason enough to ban it? After all, we're supposed to be fighting for our way of life, and our way of life is based - among other things - on the idea that everybody has the right to speak their mind. Are we to deny this right to those whose views we find distasteful? And, as I've mentioned more than once in these pages, it is right and proper that the civilian casualties of our wars should not be forgotten - not that I think that this is anything more than a peripheral purpose of the march. No, let them march, and if you want to express your aversion to what they're doing, then ignore them - let them march through empty streets with a minimum of media there. Just ignore them.