Democrats and Islamic Fundamentalists Make the Same Error

Here's a little parody video called "Arab Girls Gone Wild" that should serve to remind people how we can bend and make concessions to Muslim sensibilities until we're blue in the face, but still never meet in the middle.

The reason I say in the title that Democrats and Islamic fundamentalists make the same mistake is this: They both favor "compulsory virtue", an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. Of course virtue by definition cannot be forced, yet we're constantly bombarded from the Left with instance that welfare is a necessity for a "moral society", that reducing carbon emissions is a "moral imperative", "diversity" trumps fairness in the classroom and the workplace, etc..

It's not enough for Islamic fundamentalists to preach the virtue of female modesty. Instead they pass laws REQUIRING it and often punishing the disobeyers with violence or even death. Even in Europe we have seen women beaten or killed by family members for their immodesty.

I'm all for virtue in environmental issues, treatment of the less fortunate, female modesty, etc., but all that goes out the window when you decide you're going to impose that on somebody.