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"What values are you using to measure "stupidity"? Not your Western values, surely?"

Yes, just "Western" values like: equality of rights for people regardless of their religion; equality of rights for women; that the country's Constitution should not be an ancient religious text; that religious "crimes" should not be punishable by state law; that religious clerics do not possess the highest legal authority in matters civil and criminal; that it is not a crime punishable by death to apostatize; and oh, a handful of other not-so-important "Western" values. After all, if everything is relative nothing can be any better than anything else and every value system is of equal intrinsic value, right? NOT

Also, as for measuring "stupidity" itself: I should think one's proclivity to blow himself up in blind belief of what his religious leader tells him, and that it will lead him straightway to Paradise and 72 virgins, should be a rather telling measure of stupidity by any account.