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Originally Posted by RACooper
Call it what you will but it's still xenophobia fueled I suspect by a fair amount of bigotry. Culture and society evolves as the components within it change, to assume that change doesn't or shouldn't happen is about as ignorant as demanding that the culture should completely change - society is about accommodation and respect as well as adaptation, both parties need to learn this lest both fall prey to their particular bigotries.
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Ah yes.. desiring to preserve one's culture makes one a "bigot." No, it's just the hyper-liberalized European way of thinking that is willing to seemingly set aside thousands of years worth of culture for a brand-spanking new immigrant group -- an immigrant group which as been known to harbor and protect individuals who have conspired to kill one's countrymen, treats its women like cattle, etc. I'm not talking about all Muslims, of course. The gentleman in the video makes the distinction as well. Fundamentalist Islam, however, is apparently quite popular in Europe. Like any fundamentalist belief, it is something to be resisted. As far as I know, the Greek Orthodox fundies are being left alone because they more-less keep to themselves. Islamic fundies? Not so much.
Behaving as they do, it's just a matter of time before the Europeans allow themselves to be steamrolled by a vocal minority.
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They shouldn't no - any more than the there should be religious courts for Orthodox Jews or Fundamentalist Christians, and yet I don't see the subject in this film commenting on those demands thatd have also been made repeatedly (well again - English tried the Fundie route under Cromwell before tossing them out) so I have to wonder why he is singling out the Muslims.
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So you must be a bigot for being against the Sharia courts then? You seem to want it both ways. What right do you have to say that the English courts are superior to the Sharia courts? At least try to be consistent in your position.