I've seen people who are strenuous about diversity at home yet would never dare push it abroad. Is China too Chinese? Is Liberia too black? Is Saudi Arabia to Arabic? They would be according to PC diversity doctrines. I for one like people from other parts of the world and from other cultures but that doesn't mean the home culture always has to make it self secondary to the foreign cultures which is how PC diversity swings in the West. Its a one way street with all kinds of drawbacks.
People abroad like to crticize US for having largest prison population but 1/3 of the criminal are illegal immigrants that other countries were happy to send and America was foolish enough to take. Cuba once let people leave the Island in mass boat exodus and it was full of all the troubling people. As far as Muslims go I've lived with them and known many. A Muslim from Sierra Leone is not liable to be the same as one from Afghanistan. The ones from the cultures with a tribal/clan vibe and who take offense at all kids of things can be a problem. Insulting Islam under their laws can be worse than murder and call for death. Just leaving Islam can be a reason for death. Boston aside there about 14 places around the world where Islam is being used as reason for violence. That includes the genocide in Darfur.
As for US - historically there is long tradition of isolationism. Founders always cautioned about "foreign involvements" and people took it seriously. The world wars forced that to change and the Cold War entrenched it. Now a lot of people see things as out of hand. The "nation building" thing is dumb. Islam teaches all laws not from religious teaching is bad. The idea of "democracy" is pretty insulting to many. Even Turkey is backing away from secular ways. The whole Mid East is tipping back to the more fundamental elements of Islam - which are also the most extreme. The hardcore folks are actually doing the religion as it was laid out and interpreted. That's why the higher up in the religious hierarchy you go the more fundamental they are. I'll never forget Bush appointed a "moderate" guy to "bridge the divide" and a year latter he cut his wife's head off.
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