Um, no. With all due respect, fuck that. If it's "Just their culture" to execute people for being gay, talking the wrong way about some pedophile who kicked the bucket 1400 years ago, or lashed for drinking, get their hand chopped off for stealing a penny, (among other genius punishments that I will not get into, even though I have the Penal Law on my desk right next to me), then that culture needs to die out and be replaced, completely and totally, by a superior culture (you know, one that doesn't do... any of that.). "It's their culture" is what people say when they want to justify allowing, condoning, and promoting Muslims murdering people. (because they're the only ones who're still, in this day and age, executing, or in any way punishing, people for their natural right to insult Muhammad.). We judge countries that make it a crime to curse "Dear Leader" (and don't say "that's their culture"), why's Islam any different?The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:Greate Boston wrote:There hasn't been a death penalty or apostasy in most of The West in literal centuries, and those assholes had to get through the philosophical journey to secularism and laicite (mostly) all on their own. Islamic Countries already have the recipe for secularism. They don't have to invent the wheel again. The fact that they still execute people for insulting a prophet (literally. In some countries (i.e. Iran) insulting anyone even from the prophet's family is a crime that gets death penalty.) means there's something wrong with them, and it's not "colonialism" or what have you.
The Western world and the Islamic world are very different; and history cannot be explained well by imitation.
No, there is nothing “wrong with them,” as you say. However, cultures are different, and my country, the U.S., is certainly in no position (especially now) to negatively judge any other cultures.
And yeah, given how the American Government hasn't executed, or condoned the lynching of, any person for exercising their right to free speech, they absolutely are, and will be, in the perfect position to judge. Literally anyone who doesn't do that is in the perfect position to judge the Muslims for being that shitty. (BTW, this should go to the Islamic Discussion Thread)