Why Can't We Criticize What's Wrong with Islam?

[Valin]

Townhall:

Cliff May
10/14/10

What's your opinion of polygamy? Many consider the practice immoral and it's illegal in this country and most of the developed world. It's probably not just coincidence that few, if any, polygamous countries are liberal democratic societies in which women enjoy equal rights. Anthropologists have noted that in a polygamous society many men end up as "bare branches"-sexually frustrated and prone to enlist in violent enterprises, especially those that bring status and glory; a jihad, for example.

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Fadéla Amara, the French official, perceives this as a consequence of cultural relativism -- Westerners declining to denounce not only polygamy and the niqab, but even "forced marriages or female genital mutilation, because, they say, it's tradition." Such condescension, she adds, is "nothing more than neo-colonialism."

Psychologist Phyllis Chesler recently cited a particularly blatant example of this double standard: Fred Gottheil, a professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, tracked down 675 academics who had signed a statement-petition calling for a boycott of Israel as an "apartheid regime." He asked them also to sign a statement-petition opposing the abuse of women in the Middle East, including "honor-killing, wife-beating, female genital mutilation;" also the systematic "discrimination against women, gays and lesbians in the Middle East."

The result of this experiment: Ninety-five percent of those who signed the petition censuring Israel "did not sign a statement concerning discrimination against women and gays and lesbians in the Middle East."

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I'm convinced, too, that we've long been sliding down a slippery slope: Tolerance once meant you were willing to abide behaviors you found objectionable. Then it came to mean not judging such behaviors at all or, better yet, respecting them. Now, it's come to mean celebrating them.


I would also like to add....When did criticism, become phobia/hate?

[SrWoodchuck]

I would also like to add....When did criticism, become phobia/hate?

Valin! Great post.

 

When people deemed it necessary that we all wear lily-white cloaks of "Political-Correct-ness?"

 

I commented on another thread about the Mormon plural marriage reality show, and the husband, who may be charged with illegal co-habitation under the laws of Utah. Juxtapose that with the UK, France & Scandinavia; whose welfare apparatus is being shut down by Muslim immigrant men, with plural wives and children; who are all "on the dole."

 

If this is what's happening in Dearbornistan, under the "Sharia light" communities; they need to hit the wall of American state & federal constitutional law.

 

Agree, as a citizen, to abide by US laws.....welcome!

 

Prefer your old country's laws? Go back! [with the wives & kids]

[Pepper]

As to the question Why Can't We Criticize What's Wrong with Islam? there's one and only one answer.

 

Islam tolerates no criticism.

[Valin]

As to the question Why Can't We Criticize What's Wrong with Islam? there's one and only one answer.

 

Islam tolerates no criticism.

 

 

Are you so sure?