Originally posted by mudskipper
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There are a disproportionate number. However, they are trying to do something about it - it is not accepted as OK by the judicial system, blind eyes are not turned.Originally posted by cailin maith View PostOn the same BBC page there are links to other attacks - one is some poor sod who got stoned right outside a courthouse by her own family. WTF? No police or security at the courthouse?
There seems to be a lot of nutjobs
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Doesn't that depend on how vicious the stoning is ?, after they're blinded they might well turn a bit before they're buried under stonesOriginally posted by mudskipper View PostSocialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.
No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.Comment
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Deliberate use of acid as a murder tool and then no attempt to engage medical treatment, that's not even murder that's plain unmitigated brutality.Comment
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Awful. At least it seems the government are starting to toe the line w.r.t. more widely accepted moral codes now.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Not exactly a fan of Islam but these are more cultural than Islamic problems. Pretty horrible things also go on in Hindu rural parts of India when people marry/have affairs outside their class or community.bloggoth
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This is a good point. It's not religion per se that's the issue, it's the use of religion to justify such practices when it ought to be used to show them up for the outdated and barbaric customs they are.Originally posted by xoggoth View PostWhile you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Absolutely true, however if the religions (which in that part of the world do have a very, very powerful voice which is listened to) don't condemn and punish the behaviours then they will continue.Originally posted by doodab View Post
It's also fair to say that the religions which don't actively condemn this sort of thing are at least tacitly encouraging it.
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Heard more about this on the radio this morning & the woman who was stoned was 3 months pregnant.
Savages.Bazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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