juliaoceania
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ORIGINAL: domiguy No...This is about people, predominantly Muslim that repeatedly do fucked up shit. I m sure that Muslims abuse their kids as well...So try to stay on point. We are talking about "honor killings." Very rarely in the states do we have any Christians killing their children because of who they chose to marry or how they chose to dress. We don't stone women to death. We don't kill people because they burned the bible or drew a cartoon of Jesus. We don't run into crowded areas and blow everyone to bits. There is a problem in the world. Many of these problems can be linked to one set of people. The problem as I see it is that there is a serious lack of condemnation going on. There is a serious lack of a committed effort to get these people up to speed. You can't possess the greatest natural resource of oil and act as if you should be treated with a form of respect and dignity when there is a fairly substantial part of your population that is really fucked in the head. When you burn the koran...you shouldn't have to fear for your life. When you choose to marry someone other than a muslim, death should not be one of the punishments. You don't stone a girl to death in this country and get to walk away from it. If all of these fuckers were rounded up and faced a life sentence this shit would stop immediately. They really are animals and it is time to start treating those that are unable to conform to some sort of a minimal standard of human decency as such. If you couched it in the terms of "fundamentalists that murder people for their religion are animals" I would happily agree with you. If you said that, "many Muslims are not into killing women and are moderate"... I would never have responded. There are literally millions and millions of moderate Muslims that would NEVER kill their daughters for honor. In Africa, for example, there are Muslim populations where women divorce their husbands, have equal access to the courts, and there is no Sharia law. My problem is with attacking the entire group for what a relatively small percentage of those who practice that faith do.
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