HOW THE HELL ARE MUSLIMS THIS CULTURALLY CONSISTENT!?
200 years, within the same nation, and at least nominally no break in culture or Judicial continuity, and Americans can’t agree that “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” refers to a “right”, that “people” have, to “keep”, or “bear”, “Arms”, or that there’s even a meaningful sense in which such right could be said to be “infringed”.
And yet Muslims across 1400 years, numerous crusades, the rise and fall of countless states and colonial occupations be they Ottoman, European, or American… have retained a culture and set of norms so closely and tightly that the argument isn’t Whether how Muhamad ruled 1400 years ago is relevant to whether or not Muslims should kill people for what in any other religion would be a common blasphemy… but whether his conduct demands it in all circumstances and whether or not a Muslim minority in a foreign country should take it so seriously they enforce it extrajudicially through terrorist violence.
France had a religious cultural norm! Lacite! A uniquely French conception of secularism that amounted to state-mandated Atheism in public…a norm that in many instances forbid displays of faith, and often expressed itself as a republican celebration of blasphemy in political satire such as that produced by Charlie Hebdo… If you recall the sort of celebration of South Park’s irreverent satire from liberals and civil libertarians as a marker of healthy free speech norms and the health of democratic discussion, that was sort of a lesser version of the pride the French take in Lacite.
That’s gone.
No Western newspaper will publish satire like this now and many states are soft-criminalizing similar cartoons and statements as hate speech.
Muslim cultural consistency was so strong that not only did their norms survive 1400 years unchanged, but even where Muslims were in the minority, in a foreign country, with its own incompatible norms, Islam overpowered the native norms and enforced itself!
People wring their hands, but I’m simply in awe!
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