Not to my political preferences. Just to accept that there are political/social/cultural perferances and that people won't always agree.
The home office says, we have a functional police force.
The revolt against the conservatories is because they failed to deliver brexit, the Brexit part is moderate, it has some left wingers and some right winners, some gays, several blacks, and a European. It's the brexit party mate, not ing Ukip, Ukip still exists, and has a total of one MEPs.
You're talking again.
Cheers for that, I properly appreciate it.
Barbaric then, whatever, such assaults on the rights of the individual are unacceptable, and violate and undermine a stable democratic nation. This is not to say debate is not to be encouraged, but it is to be consensual with those participating and listening wishing to take part.MENA people in Europe are all the controversy lately, but what I said equally applies to South Asians, sub-Saharan Africans, or whoever. Their cultures are not "outdated". They have developed along different trajectories.
They're pretty worldwide. But nothing is universal, and it's a far cry from being universal among citizens where it official policy. It's still necessary to prevent disruption to peoples lives and to national progress.There aren't universally held values.
Okay, well it's a reactionary reform, it's still barbaric brutal, and has no place in a modern civilization.Wahhabism is quite modern, in fact quite young, and on the rise. It seeks to recreate an idealized past that never existed. I hear Westerners talk about how Islam needs a reform movement. Wahhabism is a modern reform movement, maybe just not what Westerners were hoping for.
That's not the same, it is technically conforming, but it's conforming to a consensus against conformation. Everyone is still at liberty to have their own views dress, cultures, and customs.For many, that would be demanding they conform.
Then you're boiling down European culture, which is incredibly diverse into a single entity we're not.This distinction is meaningless to me.
And yet it's still far, far better than medieval Europe.That only applied to people of the book, others were required to convert or be killed. That was how it was supposed to work anyway. In practice, dhimmi status was sometimes extended to some who shouldn't qualify. In practice, there were still anti-Jewish and anti-Christian pogroms and forced conversions. The Samaritans should have had dhimmi status, and yet they were almost all exterminated in the Seventeenth Century. Today there are only 810 of them. The Druze were systematically persecuted under Mamluk rule. Al-Maqrizi's kitab al-khitat recorded eight violent pogroms carried out against Copts in Cairo and throughout the countryside in 1259, 1264, 1279, 1283, 1293, 1301, 1321, and 1354, alongside a series of new laws meant to humiliate them and allow for the confiscation of their property.
again that required them to wear turbans, what happened to the ones who did?Quoting Little's translation of Al-Maqrisi:
It's was brutal, horrific, and awful, but we're comparing imperial Russia with nazi Germany here, being a leader in tolerance, doesn't mean you were tolerant by modern standards.Just to point out a few counter-examples. History as seen by the religious minorities who lived under Islamic rule is quite different than what is emphasized in modern Western academia.
This is true, but but my point was that Islam then was in many way more tolerant that Islam now, or Christianity then as well.This is another conversation I don't think belongs in modern politics. I find it annoying that a one-sided narrative seems to have developed for political reasons. I'm not trying to offer a counter-narrative, but the other side of the full picture. Hopefully someone won't feel obligated to come along and talk about how Muslim Andalusia was all flowers and rainbows.
He's pretty ing black, black FYI =/= African, it doesn't even = literal black (much to 6 year old me's consternation), but I'd call that guy black, but whatever, he's not white.
Someone begin older than an arbitrary number does not change their native status. Point is that change didn't end the world.