Re: Gaddafi takes a knife in the dirt chute
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Veer_G</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Donttrytorun</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 11B-B4</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think there is a huge devide in what is considered socially acceptable in one region and another. For example. I am working in a region currently where a local teenage girl was stoned to death a few months ago for dating another boy her age... not being married. They assumed she was having sex and dragged her out into the street and stoned her to death. Caved her face in with huge rocks. There was a huge plot of blood under her mangled head. All the while she was wearing her conservative high school uniform.
This is behavior fairly typical in Islamic countries and not really typical behavior in the states.
Honor killings are the norm in Islamic countries. </div></div>
You're in Kurdistan I suspect. My keen Intelligence training, as remote as it is from now, tells me so.
Isn't that where the guy, at his own wedding, lost control of a AK on full auto and shot his father and two aunts to death, and injured 8 other guests by accident?
"Ish Allah"
The very nature of Islam prohibits independant thought or action. It requires total fealty and obedience to "Learned Imams" and whatever their interpretation of the Koran and other sometimes obscure and questionable ancient texts may be. Murder is a acceptable and appropriate political tool. Hell, that's how the Rulers of Saudi Arabia got the country. Somebody murdered somebody else in the middle of the night in like 1922, and now his descendants are all Kings and Princes.
In Politcs with them, what they say to each other, and what they say "to use" is totally different.
In Islam, It's not what you do, it's what you say, and not what you say, but what you mean. They are petty, barbarous, treacherous and cruel. "Democracy, which is really Communism, has no chance there. Neither does a Constitutional Republic. Bloody violence, and assasination by religious fanatics will always destroy any potential political rivals. They will blow up their own sacred Mosques and murder their own people as false flags to blame us, or another branch of Islam, or whoever. They do it all the time in iraq. Shia blows up Shia so the people will rally behind Al Sadr or somebody and murder Sunni. Sunni murder other Sunni and blame Shia. When a truck bomb blows up prematurely in front of a school, they blame us. When some golden dome mosque that's a weapons depot blows up they blame us and collect or extort millions of dollars to rebuild it, with a bunker inside.
Fucking animals. </div></div>
Can we assume that modern US society, being a descendant of English society, would be tolerant of murdering children for political advantage? Probably not, and yet it happened in English history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower Could we assume that a serving US cabinet member could be arrested, tried, and executed for treason because of religious convictions in opposition to the President? It happened in English history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More
I see a lot of generalizations. Yes, society over there is very feudal in nature, and in certain countries (by and large an invention of colonialist intervention by the UK and others) bad men with convenient interpretations of "thought" rise to the top.
Nonetheless, aren't we supposed to avoid religious debate and/or slagging in here? </div></div>
I didn't realize this is a religious debate... are you making it one?
My point was based on cultural normalizations. And to caveat on that; the type of behavior i was talking about wouldn't be considered rare outliers like those you spoke of.
Just keeping it in context.