Ibn Warraq - The Superiority of Western Values

Ibn Warraq proposes the motion ''We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values'' by pointing to some of the bases of western civilisation - rational thinking, self-criticism, the search for truth, the ability to separate cultural and secular values and so on - and how these values have improved the societies that have imported them, such as South Korea and Japan. His main argument is that Western civilisation respects the rights of women, homosexuals, and members of different religions, whereas other cultures, and particularly those influenced by Islam, do not.
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