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John Cleese Is Right: Some Cultures Are Indeed Better Than Others

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I can remember watching a video years ago where a woman was walking down the street. Out of nowhere, a Middle-Eastern man suddenly came into the frame and started slashing and stabbing the woman with a knife. The woman desperately tried to fend him off and get away as blood sprinkled the sidewalk around her. 

I kept wondering why no one seemed to be stopping the man. 

As it turned out, the man was the woman's brother and he was attempting to "honor kill" her. This is a radically Islamic concept of killing women in your family for dishonoring the family through various acts, usually that involve practicing some form of independence. If you were to use a search engine about stories of honor killings, you'd be able to find a handful of stories in just the past few months. This includes one disturbing one about a father watching on as his son strangles his daughter to death while her other brother films it. 

Why do I tell you these disturbing things? 

I do it to highlight a very controversial point; some cultures are not good cultures and some cultures are just better than others. 

Here in the modern Western world that would automatically be written off as a racist thing to say despite the stories I just told you where that kind of thing is actually pretty normal and is, in fact, an old practice. The thing is, culture and race aren't the same. 

This was said well recently by former Monty Python star, John Cleese, who bravely pointed this out during an interview: 

Speaking to The Oldie magazine, Cleese said: 'Race doesn't matter, but culture does.

'I think that some cultures are superior to others, and we should not be frightened to say so.

'A society that goes in for female genital mutilation is abhorrent and I happen to think that if people come to live in Britain, they should accept and adhere to our values.

'I understand that some 20 per cent of Muslims in the UK would like to see Sharia law and I believe that's wrong.'

The U.K. is currently experiencing a surge in migrants from Middle Eastern countries that practice Islam as the primary religion, and instituting Sharia law in the U.K. is heavy on the minds of many of them. Sharia law is one of the most rigid, corrupt, and unfair religious legal systems in the world, and it has no business being implemented in any civilized Western country. No country on Earth practices Sharia Law that comes close to being a first-world country. It is a destroyer of society. 

Does this mean people of Middle Eastern descent are all theocratic psychopaths? No. I'm discussing a race here. I'm talking about a culture. I know too many Middle Easterners who are horrified by what they see from Islamic extremist groups to make this a racial thing. 

The truth is that while a culture and a race can often overlap heavily on a ven diagram, they aren't mutually exclusive. Case in point, let me show you a group of white rich kids taking part in a mass-conversion to Islam during a fun little pro-Hamas get-together. 

This brings me to the fact that when we say "culture" we don't necessarily mean a foreign one. The culture of the radical left is just as backward and idiotic as Sharia is. Before I hear that the American left isn't nearly that extreme, I want to remind you that they wouldn't even be as consistent with the rules behind their violence and death as followers of Sharia if given half the chance. If allowed, the radical left would make the "Lord of the Flies" look like a fun tale told at Sunday School. 

The traditional American culture is far better than the radical leftist culture currently being pushed by Universities, media, and even elected politicians.

In fact, Western culture is far better of a culture than most others in the world, at least when Western culture adheres to the Judeo-Christian values it is based around. 

If all cultures were equally good then fighting for America wouldn't matter. 

But it does. It matters because it allows for greater human advancement, breakthrough medicines, technologies we've only read about in sci-fi books, freedom of expression, unfettered education, and equality under God. 

The people who spit on that, whether they be political radicals or theological extremists, are a part of cultures that are definitely not better than ours. 


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