Cultural relativism, an idea that has the potential to grease the grinding gears of a society in which people of many cultural backgrounds interact on a daily basis, can become the Trojan horse of free societies when it is worshipped as an unquestioned dogma. It is one thing to recognize that every point of view is relative, and therefore no point of view is absolutely “right”, “correct”, or “best”, and it is quite another to believe that because there is no absolute “right”, there is nothing worth defending, or even less logically, that there is no point of view that could be harmful and impede human freedom.
The constant references in the media of free and humanistic societies (in the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, etc.), by politicians, by intellectuals, and by people of all descriptions to Islam as a “religion of peace” are a reflection of the blind worship of dogmatic cultural relativism. Despite the fact that most of these sources have never read the Koran, have never heard of the hadith, and appear to consider Islam to be Christianity translated into Arabic, they cling to this "Islam is good" notion as an article of faith and denounce any who disagree with it as racist, ignorant, malevolent, and worse.
All this despite the constant violence, misogyny, and pressure coming from the Muslim world to turn sharia into the law of all of our lands. Cultural relativism has become an excuse for being uninformed about the world and is a guise for what is in fact the usual arrogance of any culture: we truly believe in the inevitability of the entire world accepting our way of life. In the case of our tolerant societies, that means that we cannot conceive that there may be values which are deeply opposed to tolerance.
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Then, of course, they are bitten by the snake because of their ignorance that there are hostile and bad cultures out there.
As a government employee, I enjoyed the policies of respecting diversity in the workplace. But of what did that diversity consist? Koreans, Filipinos, women, Sikhs, Hindus, Japanese, Chinese, and etc.
As a cinema buff, I never could get the fascination with martial arts in Chinese movies, but I never had an overwhelming sense that some cultures ARE better than others until I saw Geert Wilders' Warning to America video in which he contrasted Western Civilization to Muslim countries and woke me up to the fact that our culture IS better.