Multiculturalism, a peculiarly Western set of attitudes about the non-Western world, doesn't mean vieweing people with non-Western backgrounds as individuals and caring whether they live under governments that grant them the same liberties we enjoy; it means exalting non-Western groups, treating their collective values (however illiberal) as sacrosanct, and either choosing not to notice their lack of freedom or pretending that there's no such thing as freedom or, alternatively, taking the attittude that while freedom may be fine for us, because we're Westerners, a lack of freedom is just as good, if not better, for them, because, well, that's their culture and who are we to citicize it?