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Originally Posted by Shaun

Not killing homosexuals is a "vague claim" of superiority? Okay then.

That's not really my point, and Islamic culture is hardly synonymous with executing gays anyway. I'm just saying that it's pointless to try and claim that our culture is better than theirs when it's a matter of subjectivity. To think that the way our present culture does thing is the right way, or the better way, is quite a narrow minded viewpoint considering the huge cultural diversity in the world and throughout history.

Sure, being brought up in the UK it means you're likely to follow and believe in Western culture but that doesnt make it superior to someone brought up in Saudi and believing in Islam. Trying to see the world only through your own culture is what led to Europeans trying to force Christianity and other Western values on them inferior darkies in Africa during the Colonial days, because it was incomprohensible to Britons that those uncivilised peoples could ever be equal to themselves. We are now brought up to appreciate racial equality, gender equality, whatever, not the case 100 years ago and not the case in some parts of the world today. Our morals are dictated to us by how we're brought up and what we are encouraged to believe.

Anyway, that might not have made sense, I was just loosely stringing together my thoughts really