{"id":66456,"date":"2026-07-30T06:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66456"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:05:28","slug":"woke-anger-towards-john-cleese-of-monty-python-for-stating-the-obvious-about-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/30\/woke-anger-towards-john-cleese-of-monty-python-for-stating-the-obvious-about-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke anger towards John Cleese, of Monty Python, for stating the obvious about cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when the left was identified with irreverence, until progressive dogmas became hegemonic in the West.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/05\/keir-starmer-scandal-gives-insight-into-how-the-left-defends-women-and-girls\/\">Keir Starmer scandal gives insight into how the left defends women and girls<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/11\/multiculturalism-what-is-it-and-why-do-some-politicians-turn-a-blind-eye-to-its-effects\/\">Multiculturalism: what is it and why do some politicians turn a blind eye to its effects?<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>From its newfound dominant position, <strong>the left has become a club of inquisitors obsessed with censoring all opinions that do not align with their own<\/strong>, even the mere assertion of biological facts such as the sexual differences between men and women or the beginning of human life at conception. <strong>Among the obvious truths that the woke inquisition cannot tolerate is the evidence that not all cultures are equal<\/strong>, a fact persistently denied by the left in the name of so-called \"<strong>multiculturalism<\/strong>.\"<\/p>\n<p>This week we've seen yet another example of the left's inability to accept obvious facts. <strong>One of those who believe that not all cultures are equal is the English actor John Cleese, a member of Monty Python<\/strong>, creators of, among other films, \"Life of Brian\" (1979; he's second from the left in the image from that film at the top of this article), which contains scenes that today make <strong>a left wing, unwilling to accept being ridiculed for its most absurd dogmas and political deviations, bristle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, Cleese <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/2081485615875473775\" target=\"_blank\">expressed<\/a> his confidence in the Conservative politician Rupert Lowe of the Restore Britain party, who the day before <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RupertLowe10\/status\/2080892486516424824\" target=\"_blank\">had criticized the Islamization of the United Kingdom and its effects<\/a>. In a message posted on July 28 on his Twitter account, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/2082113231230046224\" target=\"_blank\">Cleese stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"I see I am being ritually insulted for my  support of this man<\/p>\n<p>The uneducated call me a racist<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not a racist<\/p>\n<p>I am a culturalist<\/p>\n<p>I believe that some cultures are better than others<\/p>\n<p>I prefer cultures to do not advocate stoning, pederasty,<br \/>\nwife beating<\/strong>, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents<\/p>\n<p>Call me old-fashioned...\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/2082113231230046224\" target=\"_blank\">Cleese's message has gone viral, reaching over 9 million people<\/a>, with more than 16,000 users sharing it and over 123,000 users liking it. Although he has received many messages of support, <strong>in the comments many furious progressives have begun attacking Cleese, accusing him of being \"Islamophobic\"<\/strong>. And all for stating something that is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <strong>many Islamic countries maintain laws that violate human dignity<\/strong>, gender equality, and religious freedom. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Economist_Democracy_Index\" target=\"_blank\">The Economist's Democracy Index<\/a>, <strong>among the 26 countries considered full democracies, 23 are Christian-majority countries and none are Muslim-majority countries<\/strong> (the other three are Japan, Taiwan, and Mauritius). At the same time, <strong>among the 61 authoritarian regimes on the list, 32 are Muslim-majority countries<\/strong>. Many of these 32 have Islam as their official religion. <strong>The top country on the list is Norway, with over 70% Christians. The bottom is Afghanistan, an Islamist dictatorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the situation were reversed, we would see the left spewing hatred against Christianity far more frequently than it already does. In fact, <strong>a large part of the left displays a pathological hatred of the West, among other things because of its Judeo-Christian roots<\/strong> and because it is the geographical environment in which capitalism triumphed. One has to wonder if they are also bothered by the fact that <strong>it is precisely in the West where democracy flourished and where it is most deeply rooted today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In any case, <strong>if there are progressives who believe that Islamic and Western cultures are comparable, they only have to walk around Iran or Saudi Arabia without a veil (if they are women)<\/strong>, or dare to organize a gay pride march in any Islamic country, to see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Frame from \"Life of Brian\" (1979).<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when the left was identified with irreverence, until progressive dogmas became hegemonic in the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373],"tags":[794,27530,7747,10426,27532,27531,10678],"class_list":["post-66456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-islam","tag-john-cleese","tag-monty-python","tag-multiculturalism","tag-restore-britain","tag-rupert-lowe","tag-united-kingdom"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 10:52:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}