Some cultures have little or no sense of self criticism - and before
you start, the West is full of critics: e.g. we are for ever insulted by
our own left-wing, for being 'racists', although we are the only culture
in which we have to accept a non stop stream of immigration from outside
and can say nothing about it.
Sometimes its cultural, sometimes its religious, and in some its that unhappy combination of both. In the Arab/Islamic world it seems to be the latter.
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| al-Watan's cartoons - The West's blinkered view of Islam? |
Sometimes its cultural, sometimes its religious, and in some its that unhappy combination of both. In the Arab/Islamic world it seems to be the latter.
