Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I think it's more valuable to examine why this situation is playing out in this way instead of smugly looking at another country as inferior.
Well yes, it's valuable to examine the situation - bear in mind it's equally possible to knee-jerk one way ("Giving this case any attention whatsoever is just buying into anti-Muslim propaganda whipped up by the racist media!") as the other (savages, etc.). So maybe I did knee-jerk, but for all that, I can't think of a better word than 'savage' for a legal system that demands someone be imprisoned and/or publicly flogged for a (perceived) religious slight. And in the context of European history, this is something we associate with the middle ages, is it not?
As for calling another country inferior, I'm afraid I have total contempt for po-mo moral relativism (which trumps all other ethical positions for sheer smugness by disdaining the very concept of an ethical position) and hold the view that tolerance and secularism are inherently inferior (EDIT: gah, I mean superior, of course! ) to fundamentalism and theocracy. I'm tolerant about lots of things, but intolerance isn't one of them, if you see what I mean. And it's not about thinking there's anything inherently wrong with the Sudanese, because that would be to confuse ethnicity/nationality with culture/politics.
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