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And never CONSIDER going there.

That won't be necessary. They'll be coming here. Their goal is a global Islamic state.

K.

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Here is a petition.

In the Maldives, a 15 year old girl was raped and became pregnant. The thugs that run the country now want to publicly whip her (100 strokes) to punish her for being a rape victim.

I've had it with Islamic bullies and brutes torturing and maiming innocent victims. If you have too, please sign like I did.

And never CONSIDER going there. Their main source of income is tourism, so let's starve them until the bastards become civilized.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

And never CONSIDER going there.

That won't be necessary. They'll be coming here. Their goal is a global Islamic state.

K.

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But please DS, cases such a this do not justify generalisations about all Muslims. We don't put all Christians in the same category as the fanatics of WBC, or all Jews in the same category as the fanatics who want to impose gender segregation on suburban buses in parts of Israel, do we?.

Wouldn't using the term "Islamist" - which refers to the kind of fanaticism that motivates this and other similar crimes against humanity - rather than "Islamic" - which refers to a religion practiced by a over a billion and a half people around the world be more accurate and less inflammatory? The difference may seem minor but the implications are serious.

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Finally I will be taking your advice about not travelling to the Maldives. It has been omitted from my plans for my next visit to the sub-Continent. Thanks for the suggestion.

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But please DS, cases such a this do not justify generalisations about all Muslims....

Wouldn't using the term "Islamist" - which refers to the kind of fanaticism that motivates this and other similar crimes against humanity - rather than "Islamic" - which refers to a religion practiced by a over a billion and a half people around the world be more accurate and less inflammatory? The difference may seem minor but the implications are serious.

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But when governments are run as Islamists, they invariably become cruel and have no regard for their citizenry.

Islamic radicals don't wait to be elected.

Muslim Patrols UK

Not only Britain, but some other European countries with Muslim populations – including Denmark and Spain – have witnessed a similar rise of home-grown Islamic street militants and thugs. ~International Business Times

Muslim Imam Claims Women Who Don’t Wear Hijabs are “Asking to be Raped"

Now, however, he is accused of pulling his penis out and chasing a 23-year-old woman around in a park in Malmö in August 2012, according to the court in Malmö.

He claims the charges are "racist".

K.

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On the very day the boys who raped her were found guilty, the victim in the notorious Steubenville rape case became the apparent victim of yet another crime: menacing.

Two teen girls were arrested Monday after allegedly posting on Facebook and Twitter threats to hurt or kill the girl at the center of a much-publicized rape case.

To those who work with sexual assault victims, the news was unwelcome, but not surprising.

"That's not uncommon," says Tracy Cox of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Even after a verdict, Cox says that rape victims and their families are often targets of backlash.

Scott Berkowitz, the president of the Rape, Abuse and Incest Nation Network (RAINN), says that in his experience, threats to a victim don't usually rise to the level of physical violence...

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"The most severe thing with these young men is being labeled as registered sex offenders. That label is now placed on them by Ohio law...That will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Employers, when looking up their background, will see that they're registered sex offenders. When they move into a new neighborhood and somebody goes on the Internet, where these things are posted, neighbors will know that they are registered sex offenders."

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AMY GOODMAN, reporter: In January, we spoke to Monika Johnson Hostler, president of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. She said the Steubenville case has forced America to take a hard look at its views on rape.
MONIKA JOHNSON HOSTLER: What we are calling for is not just how this is handled in Steubenville, Ohio, but really asking America to take a hard look at ourselves in how we are — handle sexual violence and rape in our country. I think we’ve been able to point our fingers and turn our heads to rapes that have happened in other countries and not held ourselves accountable as Americans to say that we [Americans] absolutely still have a culture of rape, where women and girls are still degraded and dehumanized, and rape is in the fabric of this country. And unfortunately, I would think, centuries later, that we would be further along in terms of our response, but yet we still see Americans blaming victims. So, in terms of our overall response, we’re calling for America to take a hard look at itself and really think about the culture that we’re raising our kids in and the things that we are allowing to happen by not acknowledging, as a community, as a society, the importance of supporting the rape victim.

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...even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.

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Over the past week, political analyst Zerlina Maxwell has received racially fueled death threats for speaking out against rape. Maxwell, who is a rape survivor, appeared on a Fox News segment with Sean Hannity last week about the possibility of arming women to prevent rape. She said the responsibility should lie instead with men. In response to her remarks, Maxwell received a torrent of abuse on social media with commenters saying she deserved to be gang-raped and killed.
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“I hope you get raped and your throat slit! Maybe then you understand why white women need to be armed.”

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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

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Religious radicals of any faith are dangerous, stupid, ignorant and that is being kind.

Bingo.

And, I'll add, saying so isn't anti-Christian or Islamophobic or anti-Semitic.

K.

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The common denominator here.....is not religion or even fundies.

The common denominator here and world wide is the degradation ,abuse and neglect of women(and often their children)...........mostly at the hands of men.

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There are a whole lot of females,millions, who`re thrown under the bus of life(or death) and faith has nothing to do with it.

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The common denominator here.....is not religion or even fundies.

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All three of the Abrahamic religions relegate women to an inferior status.