Is Admiring Western Civilization A Sign Of Slave Mentality
The verse you cited is about the religous matters. To admire a good thing in others is a demand of the sense of justice and God has obliged us to stand for justice whether it goes against our ownself or our relatives etc. It is only the morality which is the subject of relgion. We cannot admire something immoral. What that is not immoral and a good thing in itself, one should admire it. There is nothing wrong in it. There is no question in this matter of having or adopting a similarity with the non-Muslims. The forbidden similarity is, again, in the matters of religion, not in cultural or social or technological things.