Western Society and the Islamic World: Why is it incompatible?

Muslims in the Middle East, regardless of sect, tend to be extremely conservative in their religious views. This has been proven in survey after survey.

Apostasy punishable by death, hatred and murder of homosexuals, subservient women, and intolerance toward other cultures and general approval of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.

These things don't exist in a vacuum on their own. They are borne from the same ideologies, many of which are sourced in the Quran and Hadith. If Christians today took the Bible as literally and conservatively as Muslims do then you would see many of the same things that we are seeing from the Islamic world today.

The problem with the West is that they refuse to understand those concepts in context. They are busy trying to be PC about it rather than facing the reality of what it is we're actually fighting.

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/

This should give us a pretty clear idea of just how conservative the Islamic population of the world really is. It is this Fundamentalism that gives birth to Islamic Terrorism as the word of God is to be taken absolutely literally.

This may not be all Muslims of all sects, but it should be noted that they are the vast majority. No Western Power will ever change this. The culture must change itself over time. Our mistake as "progressive" liberal societies is to think we share political, ideological, and cultural similarities, we do not. That we can force such a conservative and religious society to conform to our ideals. We can't.

The problem, generally speaking, is that we try to view Islamic society in the Middle East like we would view ourselves, or at leave how we'd LIKE to view ourselves.

The fact is Western muslims do not share a lot of the same conservative ideologies as their Middle Eastern counterparts. Muslims in Europe, who grew up European, are largely part of their respective societies and well assimilated to cultural norms. They do not practice what is sometimes referred to as "political Islam". This is even more so with American Muslims.

While I was in Afghanistan I served with Afghan SF and regular ANA. I do not hate Muslims so please don't try to paint my words in such a way. I will not, however, ignore the realities of just how different our two cultures are. Nowhere was this more apparent than when you're sitting around a fire in a remote FOB, half staffed with Afghans, and you're all sharing a meal and trying to understand each other through broken English and unfamiliar customs.

The paint on this wall is dry. The problem with Westerners, as my Afghan counterparts like to put it, is that they all seem to think that everyone thinks like them. And those that don't think like them are simply "not getting it". This isn't the case here. It is US who doesn't get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxIzY6vt6Yg <---See this video for a discussion on political Islam.

I ask that anyone participating in this discussion first read the entire post, read the Pew Research link, and then watch the video before responding.