# Intellectually, What Does Islam Offer The West? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 12, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectually-what-does-islam-offer-the-west/724949 "2015-07-12T15:22:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 109
**Author:** ![Construct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Construct](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Construct)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectually-what-does-islam-offer-the-west/724949/109 "2015-08-08T17:18:45Z")
> [@A\_isha](#): > > Ah. You’re one of _those_. > > Oh look. [Yet another thing you’re wrong about regarding Islam and Muslims.](http://www.thenation.com/article/rise-islamic-feminists/) Do you accept or deny the scientific consensus that people of Middle Eastern descent are less intelligent than people of European descent? Muslim feminists are a contradiction in terms, because feminism is a subset of progressivism, and progressivism is a non-theistic Calvinist sect. But even more, [if we look at actual facts](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/20/best-and-worst-countries-for-women-the-full-list.html), we find unsurprisingly that Western nations are the best places in the world for women, with muslim and African nations rounding out the bottom of the list. @Monty: your refusal to respond to the survey conducted by the BBC proves my point. Or, if you do not consider the BBC an anti-Islamic source, how do you respond to the fact that 1/4 of British muslims sympathize with terrorists? > [@Human\_Action](#): > > A small minority had “sympathy for the motives” behind the attacks. Why shouldn’t they? French Muslims are treated horribly, and that was part of the motive for the attack. This is laughable. 27% is by definition an above average size minority and amounts to more than 600,000 people; that’s many times larger than the number of active British military personnel. If someone sympathizes with terrorists, they should be shot. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectually-what-does-islam-offer-the-west/724949)._