by MEMRI
"The best way to attain moral values through rationality and humanity is to find a model to follow, and there is no better model than that of the West."
Saudi writer Abdullah
Alalweet said that the focus on issues of sex and women's apparel was not the
essence of liberalism and that "anyone who judges the West by what women
there wear or by their sexual conduct is... an idiot." Speaking on Rotana
Khalijiyya TV in a December 4 interview, Al-'Alwit said: "The best way to
attain moral values through rationality and humanity is to find a model to follow,
and there is no better model than that of the West."
Abdullah Alalweet: "Liberalism
is the freedom that you give yourself in order to think, and the freedom that
you give others so that they can practice their fate. Attributing other
meanings [to liberalism] is ridiculous and childish."
Interviewer: "What
other meanings?"
Abdullah Alalweet: "The
prevalence of sex, for example, or things that have to do with women and sex.
This is not the true meaning [of liberalism]. This is not the true meaning [of
liberalism]. The philosophers of the Enlightenment, who demanded freedom and
liberalism, were not thinking about sex or about the freedom of women.
Freedom of women, and of human beings, in general, came later. They did not
speak about what women should or should not wear. Anyone who judges the West by what
women there wear or by their sexual conduct is, to be frank, an idiot. I say
this loud and clear. Who cannot understand the modern reality in which he is
living. The West is not a brothel. The West represents a set of moral values
and rules of conduct that constitute its culture and individuals.
[...]
"The best way to attain moral values through
rationality and humanity is to find a model to follow, and there is no
better model to follow than that in the West."
MEMRI
Source: https://www.memri.org/tv/saudi-writer-abdullah-alalweet-there-no-better-model-morality-west
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