Pakistan upholds death sentence for Christian woman...
...who drank at a well reserved for Muslims only.WTF? What barbarism!!! LINKPAKISTAN COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMAN WHO DRANK FROM WELL RESERVED FOR MUSLIMSby OLIVER LANE 17 Oct...
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How easy was it to get a clear conviction for killing a black man in certain areas of the US a few decades ago. Or the use of police dogs on civil rights marchers. Equally how much justice was there...
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HarbingeR wrote:There's nothing intrinsic to Islam that makes it any more horrible than any other religion, as Throd says go back before the Reformation and Christians were behaving much the same,...
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IcelofAngeln wrote:HarbingeR wrote:There's nothing intrinsic to Islam that makes it any more horrible than any other religion, as Throd says go back before the Reformation and Christians were behaving...
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Here, not on the sub continent. We're all saying the same thing though, these people are behaving in an ancient manner that is objectionable to us. What we'd like to do is speed up history if we can...
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You are seriously trying to compare the actions of a terrorist to the legal system of a nation-state? To my knowledge, no Western nation has executed anyone via judicial process on religious grounds...
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Throd wrote: How easy was it to get a clear conviction for killing a black man in certain areas of the US a few decades ago. Or the use of police dogs on civil rights marchers. Equally how much...
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How typical of a very right winger to put his own interpretation on someone's comments. I never painted Western civilisation as the worst that's ever been. It's stupid of you to suggest I have....
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IcelofAngeln wrote:You are seriously trying to compare the actions of a terrorist to the legal system of a nation-state? To my knowledge, no Western nation has executed anyone via judicial process on...
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Throd - It's "hanged" btw, pheasants are hung, peasants are hanged.
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ChrisPat wrote:I'm reminded of a Pakistani police officer who told me that with 5% literate to the degree of being able to sign their own name and only 2% to being able to read a newspaper Pakistan...
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\thanks for the correction - I shall stop boasting that I'm well hanged immediately.Are you sure he was a Pakistani? The CIA have the literacy rate for Pakistan at 67%/42% - male/female. Afghanistan...
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He was wearing Pakistani police uniform and that's the figures he said back in 2000. Maybe he had in mind out in the sticks or something, maybe he was just making it up. The sharp, obvious sign is...
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ChrisPat wrote:Throd - It's "hanged" btw, pheasants are hung, peasants are hanged.I's rather be a hung man than a hanged man
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Well, CP, if you are broadening the discussion from the formal actions of a State legal system to the "the avowedly religious attitudes of the society he lived in," then you are also moving beyond...
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It makes more sense than for drinking from the well - and the implication in the original article and posts on this board indicated that the drinking from the well was cause of the death...
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A bit of a USSR sort of superpower, with 400 million people with no electricity, and approximately 900 million crapping in the streets because they don't want to get their toilet bowls dirty.
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In India's defense, it was only quite recently, really, that they junked Marxist and neo-Marxist theory, central planning and all the other postcolonial economic heroin which had made its economy a...
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IcelofAngeln wrote:I's rather be a hung man than a hanged manI'll nick that one, the sort of correction that people remember.
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