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The Arabs are utter barbarians, who postively enjoy seeing evil triumph. Why is this so difficult for us to grasp?
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Because I believe in the concept of natural right -- that humans have certain rights by nature, and among them is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: and that from this derives the right to do something harmless (like peck a woman on the cheek in public) without interference from some tyranny jokingly calling itself "the law."
I also believe that those coming from Western cultures are superior, because of their cultural background, to those coming from Muslim cultures, and that when Islam and the West conflict, Islam should be forced to walk mighty small. Clear?
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And, for the record, you impugned biological origin when you said "The Arabs". Not "Arabian culture". Not "Islam", even. That was a racist statement, and, in my experience, completely in line with your usual bigotry.
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Arabs are of a specific ancestry. Your statement on ‘Arabs’, unqualified and absolute, said nothing about their culture, it was a slander on everyone of Arabic descent. Including Christians and Pagans.
If you had said ‘Islam’, you might have a stronger case, but even then I don't know where to find the Hadith which says “And it's alright with Allah if you frame Anwar Ibrahim on charges of Sodomy to protect the feelings of the (ex-)president of Malaysia.”
And if you have a problem with ‘Arabic’ culture, then I assume you are fine with Iran? They're not ‘Arabs’, after all, and never have been, but are Persians.
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Barbarism is also usually regarded as a cultural state, rather than a biological one.
Now, the comment was stupid: the behaviour in question flows from monotheist erotophobia and one can find analogous behaviour in European history, some quite recently, from the same source. But jordan179's comment is one of those borderline cases, since ethnicity is both a cultural and a biological construct.
After all, it would not be too hard to find some pretty negative comments about Americans from folk not normally regarded as racist or being racist.
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I wouldn't count on that ... especially where the Americas are concerned. I wouldn't even count on that where Europe is concerned -- I think that the Europeans will wake up and pull out of their demographic and cultural tailspin before they hit the ground.
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So it is the system of belief, not something intrinsic to Arabs.
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You're right, of course -- the present-day tolerance is a relatively recent development. Though I will point out that it's been a century or more since Western countries, especially since the Anglosphere, routinely enforced a death penalty for homosexuality, as happens today in the Muslim world.
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As far as I can tell, Iran executes homosexuals roughly as often as Napoleonic War Britain did (or C18th Netherlands during one its "moral panics" on the issue) and they were the most liberal European polities at the time: though the Code Napoleon did drop it as a crime. The Enlightenment process of secularisation was only really just beginning (and is still working its way through on gay issues).
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