There should be a lot more like this guy speaking out about the backwardness of Islam
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Darth Omar
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It's a tangent, but 'liberalism' is a misnomer. Today's 'liberals' aren't liberal in the classical liberal sense. 'Progressives' is a more accurate descriptor. Modern 'liberals' can be pretty illiberal, actually.
Kind of like the Islamists they struggle to despise.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberal
Full Definition of LIBERAL
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
Full Definition of LIBERAL
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
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Full Definition of LIBERAL
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
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Truthmatters
Full Definition of LIBERAL
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
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Truthmatters
Full Definition of LIBERAL
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
1
a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts <liberal education>
b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2
a : marked by generosity : openhanded <a liberal giver>
b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way <a liberal meal>
c : ample, full
3
obsolete : lacking moral restraint : licentious
4
: not literal or strict : loose <a liberal translation>
5
: broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6
a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
USFREEDOM911
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Why, are you standing in front of a lot of them??
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christiefan915
Catalyst
Don't you mean Mexico?
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
Like you?
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Yeah....we're going to fuck some michigan sheep on Saturday. The ones who dress in green...then the following Saturday we will fuck some more sheep from Michigan of the blue and yellow variety.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
your error is obvious......there are no red and white dicks......
Frank Booth
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My friend, I am not terribly in disagreement with you. Almost by definition, history happens in a grand flow of random events, and the ones that made Liberal Western institutions ascendant by 2015 are different from the ones that made the Chinese Song dynasty so comparatively superior in the 11th century, in turn different from the factors that made the Persian Empire at it's zenith under Cyrus in 530BC a beacon for the world.
What I will say, however, is that is 2015, the larger Arab World, and in particular the Gulf Arab states, are generally 500 years "behind the times", and are in lock step with the Persians. This is not due to some British/American/Zionist conspiracy - it is on account of having a society dominated and legally bound to an absolute belief in an angry Sky-daddy (trust me, most of us in the Western World would have retroactively preferred the corpse of Trotsky over the Ayatollah). I'm happy that the aristocrats of the Rashidun Caliphate molested young men in their time and place, and I think you might have a point that however laughably short of the modern world Nasir and Pahlavi reached for, you could at least have ordered a proper martini and seen a mini-skirt in 1974 Tehran. But we live in the here and now.
This has nothing to do with ethnicity, nothing particularly with culture, and I for one think eugenics is the past time of the stupid. It simply is an observation on existing institutions and their relative strengths. Great swaths of the world are almost lawless and horribly brutal (sub Sharan Africa, anyone?). Some parts are very corrupt and harsh. Most of the Arab world is horribly repressive and inhumanely theocratic - and this harkens back to Europe of the Dark ages. I think all men are equal, but all traditions certainly are not. And by your own admission, the Middle East has regressed away from "self rule" since the 1950s (when, curiously, they were the recently liberated regions of larger and more sophisticated powers who enforced foreign methods of government).
We can play nice all you want, but at the end of the day, the Middle East is the least Democratic region in the world, (at least according to the Economist). I have long admired the accomplishments of modern secular Turkey, and I tip my cap towards Sisi's structured authoritarianism in Egypt (Mubarak 2.0?), but how do you explain this aforementioned journalistic opinion?
