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Old 22-09-2004, 12:22   #11
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Re: Execution in Iraq

I firmly believe that religion has been responsible for more deaths throughout history than disease. Blind adherence to any faith is dangerous - go back just four hundred years, and we were burning heretics in this country - a truly horrible way to die.

We have moved on, the fanatic adherents of Islam have not. They are where we were back at the days of the crusades - one can only hope it won't take them nearly 1000 years to catch up.

Also, we are often told that the Q'ran says this and that - how do we know that this is really the case? There is nothing in the Q'ran (and I have this on the authority of a Saudi Muslim friend) to justify the treatment of women in Islamic countries - in Sharia law, adultery is no crime for men, but women can be killed for a mild sexual indiscretion (short of adultery) because they have "dishonoured" their family. Where does it say in the Q'ran that women cannot drive cars? - forbidden in Saudi.

There will always be psychopaths, and such people will use any excuse, religion, a political cause, to justify their sick actions. These people are not just religious fanatics, they are dangerous psychopaths. No normal human being could behave like this.
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