In your face, Multiculturalists

Anchorage Daily News ^ | September 9, 2002 | Jay Ambrose

[3AngelaD]

It's an interesting tale of two cultures that plans persist in Nigeria to stone a woman to death for adultery while in the United States the feminist cause of the moment is to force the Augusta National Golf Club to invite women to be members.

[3AngelaD]

Our culture, Western culture, IS superior. The Prime Minister of Italy was right when he proclaimed it as such last year, and was booed down. I want to see how the liberals rebutt this one. I would take it one step further and go ahead and condemn Islam -- its treatment of women, alone, makes it beneath contempt. It values neither human life nor honesty. Dispicable.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Islamists believe that:

1. Wife-beating is an act of virtue.

2. When a woman is raped, she brings dishonor upon her family.

3. When a woman is raped, she has sinned against the man who raped her.

4. A woman who commits adultery should be stoned to death.
5. A man who commits adultery should help stone the woman he had adultery with to death.

[Mr. Thorne]

Yup.

Most of the idiotic confustion over the past few decades has come about because many people seem to be missing one objective FACT, which screws up their worldview something fierce.

That fact being, we ARE BETTER, as a CULTURE, even with all of our flaws, than just about EVERY OTHER CULTURE on earth. Period. End of sentence, end of discussion.

You cannot practice 'moral equivilance' or 'moral relativity' with cultures that PUNISH women for BEING RAPED, for crying out loud.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[Noumenon]

No human community is without fault, but over time, in an open, free, democratic society, you tend to get more and more of what your principles demand.

Or what your lack of principles demand. Remember this?

On August 9, 1932, the government decreed the death penalty for those convicted of ‘political’ murder. The next night a band of Nazis invaded the home of a Communist worker in the Silesian village of Potempa and stomped him to death, kicking his larynx to pieces. When the killer s were arrested, tried, and sentenced in accordance with the new law, Hitler responded with threats and demonstrations. On Sept. 2, the government gave its answer: the death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The killers were freed by Hitler next year.

  The civilized men in the country did not know what to do. In the words of one historian, the moderates voiced desperate "appeals to reason… [But] their techniques were distinctly out of tune with the wild emotionalism that seemed to have gripped a large part of the nation" The civility cherished by the civilized men had finally been defeated by their ideas, although they did not know that this was the cause. 

After years of preaching contradictions and of evading principles with an anti-ideological shrug, these men were astonished to see the nation conclude that man cannot live by principles, that reason is no guide to action, and that anything goes. After years of institutionalizing interest-group warfare, which they had justified as sacrifice or collective service, these men were astonished to see hostile gangs take to the streets and demand one another’s sacrifice. After years of undercutting the mind by preaching the primacy of gentle feeling (whether ‘progressive’, religious, or skeptical), these men were astonished to find that they had nothing more to say, and that there was no one left to listen. The moderates were helpless. The authorities were helpless. The killers were taking over. 

On January 30, 1933, after due attention to every requirement of German law and of the Weimar Constitution, Nazi rule was made official… It took six months for the Chancellor to transform the country into a totalitarian state."

Leonard Peikoff - The Ominous Parallels