I had to sign because I love life and so cannot in any way relate to an ideology that promotes death. I had to sign because I have witnessed the appalling consequences of past attempts to appease the implacable, attempts that simply opened the door to genocide. I had to sign because I believe in human progress and so must oppose any attempt by zealots, who cling to the notion of re-establishing a world wide caliphate, to retard that progress by a thousand years. I had to sign because I agree with Marcus Aurelius who said, 'It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities'.
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