The problem with declaring anything incompatible with "Western values" is that few can really define what those values are.
Exactly. Not to mention that the constructs of "West" vs. "East" are basically lies.
Anyway, if one decides that "Western Values" are democracy and individual rights, one must reconcile that with the fact that more than a few Muslim countries or countries with large Muslim populations maintain these values. See Indonesia, Turkey, India, Senegal, Bosnia, Albania, Tunisia etc. Not mention that there was a little thing called the Arab Spring a couple years ago that included widespread public support for the aforementioned values. Of course it wasn't broadly successful in the short term, but neither was, say, 1848.
I thought from the first that the Arab Spring would resemble 1848 much more than the 1989 many were giddily expecting.
