🎯 And when Westerners travel to repressive Islamic countries, they’re told to respect Islamic traditions. When representatives from these nations come to the West, Westerners are told to discard their traditions and freedoms and respect Islam.
Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols.
This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance.
First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our customs. Respect our sensitivities.”
Then: “Change your traditions. Silence your values. Adjust your society to our ideology.”
These are the same “values” that sentence women to 74 lashes for singing, execute gay people, and shoot peaceful protesters in the streets.
Free societies should never surrender their values to appease authoritarianism.