Muslims Outraged Over Picture of Puppy
By Daniel Miessler on July 2nd, 2008: Tagged as Culture
[ Muslims in Uproar Over Puppy ]
The Evil Puppy of Death and Decay
A Message to Fundamentalists
If pictures of puppies make you upset you shouldn’t be living in a Western country. We respect your right to be offended by Western culture, but we don’t respect your right to be offended by Western culture when you’ve chosen to come here and harvest its benefits.
You came here because you weighed the advantages and disadvantages of living here vs. living in your homeland. You chose to live here. By doing so you have accepted, to whatever degree, that our culture produces advantages that yours does not. As such, it is wrong for you to come here for the benefits we offer and then try to reshape us in your image.
Quite simply, you can’t have it both ways. Either embrace the culture that yields the advantages you enjoy or reject the entire package and return to your home. We happily accept voices of change when they come from our midst, but what you are proposing is that we should change our way of life not for fellow Westerners, but for outsiders who would prefer that our way of life did not exist.
We reject this outright.
We welcome you as new Westerners — as new citizens of our way of life, but not as hostile agents of a closed, dogmatic system who desire our undoing. Please make a choice. Either embrace our open and loving culture as one of us or feel free to criticize us from afar. All we ask is that you don’t use one hand to fight us while accepting our gifts with the other.
