• Saleh@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    I assume it’s from the Middle-east religions?

    Your assumption is both false and seems racist. How the heck do you get the idea that Swedish sexual morals would be defined by people thousands of kilometres away?

    Sweden has a long lasting history of being more strict around alocohol, drugs and prostitution. Sexual morals in Europe are predominantly shaped by the dominant christian church, be it catholic or protestant. Both the catholic and protestants are their own makings of Europe and during the crusades European Christians often slaughtered orthodox Christian.

    Muslim countries have been more progressive on issues such as abortions and reproductive healthcare and partly seen a regression since the christian colonizers. Prostitution has always been illegal under Muslim law, but it also has been illegal in Christian Europe and legality is more the exception than the rule even today. Again the idea that this would somehow be the “fault” of “Middle-east religions” is absurd. This is some 1500 years “home made” European stances.

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      1 day ago

      I assume it’s from the Middle-east religions?

      How the heck do you get the idea that Swedish sexual morals would be defined by people thousands of kilometres away?

      I think that’s a reference to the 3 Abrahamic religions all of which originated in the Middle East - and of those Christianity most certainly is shaping the morals of Sweden (or at the least certainly has in the past)

      (Judaism, Christianity and Islam being the “big 3 abrahamic” - Zoroastrianism & Bahai aren’t really in the same category worldwide and aren’t Abrahamic as far as I am aware)