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A good book on interacting with people from other faith backgrounds is How to Be a Perfect Stranger.
My wife and I are humanist atheists. We had a friend who was Jehovah's Witness. It was against her religion to recognize any holidays or even to say happy birthday. Did we make it clear to her that it's the predominate custom in America to recognize birthdays and that she is in a minority that must adapt and graciously accept our tolerance of her beliefs? Did we point out that UUs would (theoretically) be more accepting of her than her church would be of atheists? Did we reminde her that trees and religious festivals have deep roots in many cultures, and if she can't take most of the world is undeveloped, so she could go there? Obviously not!
I'd like to see the US, or more likely some other country, maybe some micronation, become more of model of liberty, with very few laws but strictly enforced. Come to America. It's an idea of liberty, not an ethnicity. Bring your lifestyle, as long as it doesn't break the law. You can have your Lexus without giving up your olive tree.
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As harsh as it is to say, some cultures are just savage and barbaric. Honor killings have no place in the West.
They don't "understand" anything but their brutal Islamic "laws".