{"id":2237555,"date":"2024-05-05T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-comedian-bravely-attacks-sharia-law-highlights-how-some-cultures-are-superior\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:31:07","slug":"legendary-comedian-bravely-attacks-sharia-law-highlights-how-some-cultures-are-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-comedian-bravely-attacks-sharia-law-highlights-how-some-cultures-are-superior\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Comedian Fearlessly Critiques Sharia Law &#8211; Emphasizes Cultural Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegendary-comedian-bravely-attacks-sharia-law-highlights-how-some-cultures-are-superior%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2237555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>British comedian \u200dJohn Cleese criticized the erosion of British culture \u200cin contemporary society, highlighting the \u200bimportance\u2063 of\u200c cultural values over\u2062 race. He emphasized \u2063the\u2064 need for integrating into British values when living in the country, opposing the acceptance of \u200cSharia law by some\u200d British Muslims.\u2062 Cleese&#8217;s statements\u200c on cultural superiority and \u200cdefense \u200dof British heritage \u200csparked\u200d controversy in the media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 5, 2024 at 7:18am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing funny about debasing British culture in a woke-fueled embrace of inferior ways of living, according to a legendary British comedian.<\/p>\n<p>John Cleese, who has built a career as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-british-have-been-slaves-comedy-icon-cleese-has-mic-taken-for-mocking-reparations\/\" title=\"'The British Have Been Slaves' \u2013 Comedy Icon Cleese Has Mic Taken for Mocking Reparations\">comedy icon<\/a>, starring with the Monty Python troupe and in the long-running comedy show \u201cFawlty Towers,\u201d says there\u2019s no reason to deny some cultures are better than others, according to the U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13374615\/John-Cleese-says-Britons-not-frightened-say-cultures-superior-wrong-Muslims-want-sharia-law-enforced-UK.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace doesn\u2019t matter, but culture does,\u201d Cleese, 84, told The Oldie magazine, a U.K. publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that some cultures are superior to others, and we should not be frightened to say so,\u201d he said, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cleese gave an example \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-sudan-moves-criminalize-female-genital-mutilation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mutilation of the genitals<\/a> of baby girls practiced in some Muslim cultures to curb sexual desires when the girls grow into women. It\u2019s social effort to control women at the most fundamental level, beginning almost from birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA society that goes in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-asks-department-of-family-protective-services-to-say-whether-trans-surgeries-for-kids-are-child-abuse\/\" title=\"Abbott Asks Department Of Family Protective Services To Say Whether Trans Surgeries For Kids Are Child Abuse\">female genital mutilation<\/a> is abhorrent and I happen to think that if people come to live in Britain, they should accept and adhere to our values,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cleese noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uk-embraces-sharia-style-censorship-cop-allegedly-posts-unpopular-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharia law<\/a>, the religious law of Islam, has no legal standing in Britain, but said some British Muslims would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/14418217.one-four-british-muslims-back-sharia-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like that to change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that some 20 percent of Muslims in the UK would like to see Sharia law and I believe that\u2019s wrong,\u201d he said, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Is John Cleese correct to defend British culture as superior?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cleese is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/legendary-comedian-john-cleese-mocks-hank-azarias-apology-voicing-simpsons-character\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no stranger to controversy<\/a>, but considering the leftist politically correct attitudes taking hold in contemporary Western society and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lgbt-activists-utterly-failed-cancel-harry-potter-game-publisher-triples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viciousness of cancel culture<\/a>, it takes courage to take the stances he has.<\/p>\n<p>Cleese stirred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dwayne-rock-johnson-takes-swing-cancel-culture-woke-culture-really-bugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy<\/a> in 2019 by posting on social media that \u201cLondon was not really an English city anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was not a racist remark,\u201d he said in the new interview, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I suspect I should apologise for my affection for the Englishness of my upbringing,<br \/> but in some ways I found it calmer, more polite, more humorous, less tabloid, and less money-oriented than the one that is replacing it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZntbORfQdW\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZntbORfQdW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cleese (@JohnCleese) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/1133769225753964545?\">May 29, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cleese talked about a show called the \u201cDinosaur Hour\u201d in which \u201cwe had three academics and discussed this whole woke business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What annoys me is how some people think they have invented kindness, but kindness has always been there,\u201d he said, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Cleese has never shied away from saying what he likes. In a 2014 interview, he sounded off on political correctness, according to the U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/news\/former-monty-python-john-cleese-political-correctness-is-condescending-9891121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt starts as a halfway decent idea and then it goes completely wrong and is taken ad absurdum,\u201d he said, noting that he stopped making jokes about Mexicans due to negative audience reactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake jokes about Swedes and Germans and French and English and Canadians and Americans, why can\u2019t we make jokes about Mexicans? Is it because they are so feeble that they can\u2019t look after themselves?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very, very condescending there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-issues-dire-warning-about-chinas-rapid-military-nuclear-weapons-buildup\/\" title=\"U.S. Military Issues Dire Warning About China\u2019s Rapid Military, Nuclear Weapons Buildup\">military issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues. <br \/> Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>  Location <\/p>\n<p>  New York City <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  Politics, Foreign Policy, Military &#038; Defense Issues <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent statement, iconic British comedian John Cleese slammed the trend of undermining British culture in favor of what he deems &#8220;inferior ways of living.&#8221; Cleese, known for his work with Monty Python and &#8220;Fawlty Towers,&#8221; cautioned against a woke-driven erosion of cultural values<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2237556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/union-jack-sbs-john-cleese-for-may-5-2024.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/union-jack-sbs-john-cleese-for-may-5-2024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}