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So, female genital mutilation, sex slavery and stoning are all just cultural differences to be ignored? On some occasions, the West has the answers.

asteli 11y ago
Oddly enough, these aren't things that we've historically gone to war over.
jon-wood 11y ago
Not at all. They're abhorent practices that we should be campaigning to end. You don't change people's minds by turning up and dropping a couple of Hellfires on them. All that achieves is pissing off their family, and making them less receptive to your arguments. Would you be receptive to someone telling you they know better on matters of morality after they blew up your brother?
- dba7dba 11y ago
  There will be wars. Not just over what West has done to ME. It will be over money, water, power, etc etc. And without those high tech weapons, a lot of warm bodies would be required to pick up a gun and shoot to kill. Close enough to see without the aid of zoomed image on a screen. I'm talking beyond just what West has done or not. Or what ME has done. It's terrible. But again, that's life.
ljf 11y ago
Are we are war or considering invading a country that practices fgm? As last time I looked we weren't heading to any African countries with our troops. And fgm is an African issue not a Muslim one... Ethiopia is one of the worst countries for it and is a Christian majority country http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23314088 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23314088
DanBC 11y ago
> sex slavery Non Muslims have considerable involvement in sex slavery and other forms of modern slavery.
fit2rule 11y ago
The West has more sex slavery going on than anywhere else. Genital mutilation is still a thing in the West. The only thing you've got left is stoning - well, we can counter that with the factoid that the US has more prisoners in its incarcerated population than the rest of the worlds prisons' combined, and most for minor offenses.. So? So what? None of this means you should support a government that wantonly kills people on the other side of the planet on a whim.

asteli 11y ago

Oddly enough, these aren't things that we've historically gone to war over.

jon-wood 11y ago

Not at all. They're abhorent practices that we should be campaigning to end. You don't change people's minds by turning up and dropping a couple of Hellfires on them. All that achieves is pissing off their family, and making them less receptive to your arguments. Would you be receptive to someone telling you they know better on matters of morality after they blew up your brother?

dba7dba 11y ago
There will be wars. Not just over what West has done to ME. It will be over money, water, power, etc etc. And without those high tech weapons, a lot of warm bodies would be required to pick up a gun and shoot to kill. Close enough to see without the aid of zoomed image on a screen. I'm talking beyond just what West has done or not. Or what ME has done. It's terrible. But again, that's life.

ljf 11y ago

Are we are war or considering invading a country that practices fgm? As last time I looked we weren't heading to any African countries with our troops. And fgm is an African issue not a Muslim one... Ethiopia is one of the worst countries for it and is a Christian majority country http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23314088 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23314088

DanBC 11y ago

> sex slavery Non Muslims have considerable involvement in sex slavery and other forms of modern slavery.

fit2rule 11y ago

The West has more sex slavery going on than anywhere else. Genital mutilation is still a thing in the West. The only thing you've got left is stoning - well, we can counter that with the factoid that the US has more prisoners in its incarcerated population than the rest of the worlds prisons' combined, and most for minor offenses.. So? So what? None of this means you should support a government that wantonly kills people on the other side of the planet on a whim.