Is the one who grew up in a grave-worshipping environment excused due to ignorance?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people say that the ignorant person who is misled and grew up in a grave-worshipping environment is excused for his ignorance, because he does not know anything other than what he grew up with in his environment. Is this statement

Answer:
This is incorrect; because this person is of sound mind, he reads the Qur'an, he hears the warnings against shirk (associating partners with Allah), and he hears the words of the scholars, the lectures, and the conferences. Especially now that the media have become available, they transmit the lectures, lessons, and tapes. So this has removed the excuse from such a statement, by the wisdom of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), to cut off the excuse for such a claim. So there is no one to whom the proof has not reached now, except for one who is cut off from the world, to whom no media or anything reaches. And it appears that this does not exist now; the Qur'an has reached all people, the Sunnah has reached them, and the words of the scholars have reached them by their voices, or by their writings, or by being transmitted from them. And nothing remains except stubbornness. This person wants to be stubborn and say, "I will remain on what my society is upon, and I will not go against my society; I am afraid they will say this to me, and I am afraid of that." So he has no excuse in reality; because the proof has been established against him, and remaining on what his country is upon is not an excuse, nor is it a proof before Allah.