Yes, who am I to say that throwing a virgin into a volcano to please the fire god is barbaric? They've done it for hundreds of years!
You know what's barbaric? Abolitionism! Slavery has been part of our society for hundreds of years, and that fellow Wilberforce thinks he can just overturn our norms by an act of parliament?
We don't keep our mouths shut about that just because it's a foreign culture.
Countries can change. I see no reason for not calling them out for their (apparent) barbarisms as long as I am willing to be called out myself. This is the only way that we can improve this world for all of us.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbaric
"possessing or characteristic of a cultural level more complex than primitive culture but less sophisticated than advanced civilization"
This is barbaric: Flogging -> "Flogging is employed as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations"
stoning -> "As of 2014, certain provisions of the Qatari Criminal Code allows punishments such as flogging and stoning to be imposed as criminal sanctions."
> US
They are (were?) friends: "In 2003, Qatar served as the US Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq."
I think it is a lot less barbaric than imprisoning people for smoking weed, for years, or have them appear on a sex offender list, massively limiting their freedom, for arguably small-scale things, like public urination.
Cultural norms end where other people's human rights start.
Also male genital mutilation at birth is such a nice cultural norm.
Did you, uh, look?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_involvement_in_the_Syri...
(p.s. Russia's wars are not exactly proxy wars lately...)