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I have some thoughts on the matter, but I'll respond to this elsewhere (probably tomorrow), if you don't mind. This isn't the topic of the thread, and having just disagreed with the person who started the thread, it seems rude to continue an off-track line of discussion-- moreso than it would...

Ah, theoretically, it's sure to work. History leaves no doubt as to that. Roads to practicability are another matter. The current climate is hospitable to migrants that cannot be plausibly assimilated, and inhospitable to the sort of policy you mention. That'll turn around in due time, but that...

You start your quote with a continuation of the theatrics, and continue by adding several charged or false claims into your post, mixed with personal attacks. If this is you "holding back", I conclude with some regret that your self-control, your standards... or both of them... are somewhat...

I get the distinct sense that you're veering away from rational discussion, into something closer to theatrics. This gives me the impression that facts and arguments are being pushed onto the back-burner. Is there any point discussing things further, if we're going down that road? Have I...

These honour killings aren't aimed at the victim. They're about the honour (external honour) of the perpetrator. To let the person who 'shamed' him go unpunished, in such a case, harms his honour. Shame is the underlying motivation. This is the case in both types of honour killings. (These...

I think that you, in a post sort of leading up to this thread, once used a distinction between 'internal honour' (guilt) and 'external honour' (shame). That was about Klingons (and Worf's peculiar re-interpretation of Klingon mores), but it was a good point. It is illustrated (as I think I...

1) Islamic culture very much is an honour/shame culture, not a fear culture. That's accurate to your original post. Calling it a fear/power culture is incorrect, at least within the definition typically used (also within your original post). 2) "Anxiety" really is quite different from "fear"...

All too true. Of course, you might take a page from Captain Picard's book (captain's log?) and frame the matter as a sort of "Prime Directive", making it a whole cultural premise that interfering is bad. That kind of principle can be framed in terms that fundamentally appeal to a...

Look where they're located. Fear/Power is the norm for pre-formative cultures. To a significant degree, the pre-Roman Celts and Germans had already moved on from that. A place like Sub-Saharan Africa, in most meaningful ways, is culturally speaking at least 2000 years behind most everyone else...