It is not. It's a politically correct claim that relies on a lot of special pleading to get the desired result.
Of course I do. "The West" is a dubious and complex entity that no one elected you to speak for. I - and all of my "liberal values" - are no less a part of the Western tradition than your orientalist bullshit, and I'm not inclined to give them up at the behest of terrorists, foreign or domestic.
And herein lies the problem.
Except that by welcoming Islamists - whose values are antithetical to individual liberty - you betray any liberal values you may have. Of course, you seem to confuse actual liberalism with leftism. Leftists have been enamored with political Islam for a long time for some reason. There is even a name for that: "Islamo-leftism".
You and the Islamists desire the same thing, just in different flavors. I don't regard either of you as qualified to talk about what "the West" is or wants or should be.
Your response is pretty illiberal - keep people out with whom you disagree.
I neither have nor need any such credentials, as I'm not the one pushing a flawed political agenda justified by supposed defense of "The West" against a stereotyped villainous portrayal of "The East". Not my dumb argument, not my responsibility to defend.
You both embrace fascist, regressive, deeply conservative ideologies, and oppose liberal democratic values and all social and cultural advancements of the 21st century. The fact that you favor different religions to replace them is only of interest to someone who belongs to one of those religions, and even then only to the ignorant.
Specifically, what flawed political agenda am I pushing?
And this makes you an authority on such matters and everyone else should STFU? You’re taking some liberties.
If you say so.
Trump's coup, in general terms, and xenophobic mistreatment of refugees from Muslim countries, in this thread.
You asked for my qualifications, and now you're angry and offended that I actually had some. Rather proves my point about the backassawkward perceprion of the Conservosphere, yeah? No, my degree isn't from Liberty University or Billy-Bob's Bible School, but we did study with real books and paper, believe it or not.
I am pushing for a coup? Where do you get this from?
Just like it has to Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza.
Don’t flatter yourself, I am neither angry nor offended.
If you say so.
You have a vivid imagination. But if you don’t think islam is a threat to western civilization then you are not paying attention or willfully ignorant.
A resident of The West. You make it sound like I'm censoring the man. I am not. He is free to post whatever spiteful nonsense he likes. But he does not speak for me, or for any "us" that I am a part of.
