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drankin said:Ok, a young woman was stoned to death on a street corner. Apparently it happens all the time, it just so happened to be videod this time. Now, we in the West are riding our high horses and denouncing it. How dare us. Who do we think we are?
Give it up people. Wrong is wrong is wrong. I don't care what religion you are. I agree with Art that scoundrels often hide behind religion to justify hideous acts.
Here is a fact: there is only one other religion that could justify this kind of act and that is Judaism. It's probably been 100 if not a 1000+yrs since that community has openly stoned a woman in the streets.
Muslims need to denounce this kind of crap if they want their religion to be seriously accepted by the rest of civilization. Because what I saw on that video was not civilized and I am confident that the majority of humanity sees it the same way.
Nobody has condoned the stoning of this woman. So far we all agree that it was wrong. What puts us on the high-horse is that we are condemning a religion for the actions of a small percentage of people who commit these acts. What makes us civilized is that we have a government that punishes people for acting this way. People in Iraq are familiar with a different type of government, and at the moment, don't have much of a government at all. How do you think this country would behave without a government? How would we feel about foreign soldiers in our streets enforcing the peace.
When the United States had a less powerful government we also had public killings, but instead of stoning people, we hung them or burned them. The last public execution was in 1936 and over 20'000 spectators showed up to watch the killing. The United States is known for its violence and we have a very high crime rate, yet we still consider ourselves more civilized. Iraqis don't live like we do. Why should we judge them as if they do?
The people who stoned this woman are just cruel people, regardless of what religion they are from. There are cruel people in every religion. A religion should be judged based on its doctrine and not on the actions of cruel people who claim to act on it's behalf. A person should be judged for their actions and not their religion.