Re: Cartoons, Voltaire and the Non-Clash of Civilisations
I also like the gist of the article however. There is a subtle point being made. I do take pride in the fact that the entire Muslim world mobilized against the hate speech advocated by the Danish. Where is freedom of speech when Muslim girls are prevented from wearing headscarves to school? Muslims are very sensitive to picking up the slightest hypocricy from the West.
That's a good point, but the duplicity in that stance is obvious.
Namely, Muslim countries enforce dress codes themselves. The way France framed the anti-Hijab issue was that of enforcing it's own dress codes. We then can't rightly condemn France for doing something we do ourselves (i.e. enforce Hijab, or to a greater extent "modest" dress).
It's easier for, say, a Pakistani to simply say "get out of the country if you don't like it" than to take to the streets.