Is it just me or west is getting more intolerant, after preaching liberal lessons for decades. Talk about the hypocrisy! They say that people get irritating during old age and west is showing all signs of 'maturity'.
principles are only applied to others, when it comes back to you than hum ne khailty
Registered just to note that I see a lot of misundestandings here comming from not knowing what Slovakia is - and what it is not.
Firstly, Slovakia is NOT part of the historical Western cultural space. It never was. As such, we do *not* go preaching around the world how others should live. Specifically the current PM quoted gets a lot of flak from West Europe politicians for criticizing openly most western "adventures" including the late Libya and Syria ones.
Secondly, we are a trully young nation - having attained statehood again only in 1993, after spending almost 1000 years under some other nation rule. For this we value our own culture a lot and do not want it changed or dilluted.
Third. Slovakia was the de-facto border beween Christian Europe and Ottoman Empire for almost 5 _centuries_. We got attacted countless times by the Turks (which happened to be muslims, but you can imagine how nuanced the interpretation was back then) and each single time we had to - and did - beat them back at a great cost. About 1/3 of our folk tales and songs are about this period of "evil muslims" attacking "us". Also, during those hundreds of year, we rarely had to fight anyone else again creating a very deep mistrust of anything "muslim", before a politician says a word or before the first headchopper decides to go boom. This is a historical lesson, and given the current climate, no one reading the news feels like changing the viewin the earnest.
Lastly. The statement by the PM is _not_ directed at any individual person. We welcome anyone, and do not discriminate. I come from a Spa city that has a couple thousand muslims from GCC come each summer, some even living here long term. No issues. But those are all visitors who do not come preaching to us how to live, we preach not to them and everyone is happy so to speak.
So, to the point:
What the statement and law change is directed at is the organized and often state-sponsored push to create self-governed muslim communities which would then ignore and challenge the laws of the host country using the hospitality and various human right privileges people of the country shed blood for against them. It is vile, dishonest and nothing but cultural warfare. We now see the west fell for this - they had lot of sins to make up from their colonial era after all. And we want none of it. We never had colonies, did not start a war with anyone for 1000 years and thus we see no moral obligation to anyone to let him destroy or dilute our culture. Nor we see ourselves superior to tell anyone how he should live.
Maybe this seems a very non-Western position. It is not. We are not the West the same way Turkey is not he West. Even if now joined in NATO, which, BTW had to make a soft version of a "color" revolution in 1998 to to get us join in the first place.
EDIT: grammar
