Wednesday, January 04, 2006

They Just Don't Get It

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen informs us that the life in Islamic societies (both those that exist in the west and those that exist in the Middle East) is terrible, and therefore we should not feel bad about imposing our way of life on them.

Two things are apparent here:

(a) The idea that maybe we shouldseverely limit the number of Muslims that we allow into the west does not occur to her. She thinks that we can just turn them into us.

(b) She assumes that these societies make the people the way they are, not considering that maybe sometimes the people make the societies the way they. Just going in and assuming that they are exactly like us, they just need to be taught differently is a little like assuming that you can install Mac OSX on a Dell.

That is all.

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