Further to my post yesterday about the cultural beliefs that lead to the kind of killings we saw in Kingston, Adnan Khan brings this from the Globe & Mail:
But any Muslim worth his or her salt will also need to do some serious soul-searching. For years, Muslim communities – in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. – have approached honour crimes as something alien to Islam. They point out the obvious: Killing in the name of honour has nothing to do with their faith. And they are right, of course. They have also pointed out that many non-Muslim societies around the world tacitly condone the victimization of women to protect a man’s honour. This, they have implied, clears Muslims of responsibility for dealing with misogynist behaviour in their community.
Moral and cultural relativism. Since you have black and white guys that beat their wives, then you can’t pick on us brown guys because of our honor killings. Blah blah.
And because the Christians had the Crusades, don’t pick on us for our jihad (totally ignoring the fact that the Crusades were a response to Islamic pillaging and conquest, ahem).
And because the Westboro Baptist Church pickets funerals with a God Hates Fags message, leave us religious zealots alone in the UK (again, ignoring the fact that WBC is a) marginalized by mainstream Christianity and b) categorically NOT calling for violence against anyone, to be perpetrated by anyone except God himself).
This kind of squishy relativism is how problems get ignored and allowed to grow ever larger. Christians (and Jews – yes, especially Jews) are held to a far higher standard than Muslims, in much the same way that whites are held to a higher standard than blacks. We don’t expect anything better from you, poor dears.
Bullshit.
If you are going to live in my country, my city, my apartment building, then you have to live by the same standards and rules of society that I have to live by.
This is not very politically correct, Right Girl.
Expecting a level playing field only goes one way, and it is from the tax payers to the tax spenders.
This multicultural experiment with Muslims has been tried before. The Reconquesta was a 700-year civil war between the Christian Spanish and the Muslim invaders. It culminated with final victory in Granada in 1492, a date lamented to this day in the Middle East. After 100 years of trying a multicultural society, Spain expelled all of the Muslims. It is a heart-wrenching but informative tale. My novel A Deceit To Die For examines this and many other problems in a fast-paced religious thriller. Will history repeat itself? We’ll see.