No, Islam has nothing to teach the West about morality. One subject that I’ve never heard discussed outside fellow servicemen who’ve deployed to the Middle East is the prevalence of homosexuality (more specifically homosexual pedophilia) and bestiality among Middle Eastern Muslim men.
A common saying I heard in both Iraq and Afghanistan is that “women are for making babies, boys are for pleasure”. The governor of Nangarhar, a former war lord, is famous for keeping a harem of boys at his palace.
It’s also common for a man to “practice” with animals. Soldiers in units I’ve served with in both theaters of war, sneaking around after dark with night vision devices, have gotten eye-fulls of that particular depravity.
Islam condemns both homosexuality and bestiality, of course, but everyone in the Middle East knows both are common practices, and no one does anything about it. They accept both as normal behavior and find ways to rationalize it. In Iraq, for example, only the man being penetrated is considered a homosexual. In Afghanistan, Thursdays are reserved as the day when men are allowed to have sex with each other (or with boys) because Friday is their holy day, and can therefore be forgiven.
Finally, the most radical Muslims who deride the West most for its depravity are the ones most likely to engage in even worse depravity. The US used prostitutes – both male and female – as informants to locate Al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq, most famously in Ramadi. An SF team in Nangarhar killed an IED team while I was there earlier this year as the two men paused to have sex with each other while setting up the device. Also, would-be suicide bombers captured in both Iraq and Afghanistan are usually high on heroine, and foot soldiers are often high on amphetamines.
Is there depravity in the West? Of course there is. Depravity is a human ill, not a cultural sickness. Do Muslim terrorists use it as an excuse to attack the West? Of course they do, but that’s all it is; an excuse. The REASON they attack us is that we have not converted, submitted or ceased to exist, and therefore stand in the way of their supremacist delusions.
