http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2640367/Sudanese-doctor-facing-execution-marrying-U-S-Christian-gives-birth-baby-girl-squalid-jail.html
Brent
The political discourse matters, and explains a good deal. But
there's something beneath it, something we don't want to look in
the face: namely, that in India, as elsewhere in our darkening
world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion
intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating
around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable
language of "respect". What is there to respect in any of this,
or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around
the world in religion's dreaded name? How well, with what fatal
results, religion erects totems, and how willing we are to kill
for them! And when we've done it often enough, the deadening of
affect that results makes it easier to do it again. So India's
problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in
India has happened in God's name. The problem's name is God.
--- Salman Rushdie 2002
On 5/29/2014 7:35 PM, LizR wrote:
On 30 May 2014 14:26, Samiya Illias <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
These are people who are committing crimes in the name of religion. You, on
the
outside, are horrified by such acts in the name of Islam, and are terrified
of it,
rightly so. We, on the other hand, live in midst of this blatant violation
of the
guidance in the Quran! What these elements have not been able to find or
insert in
the Quran, they have created
Some of the people involved are priests, and some are students of Islam - do you think
that these are people who are committing crimes in the name of religion? Again this is a
straight question, I'm not drawing any conclusions at the moment.
On 30-May-2014, at 5:28 am, LizR <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
So which lot is it who does this sort of thing? Honest question.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27614359
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10850212/Iranian-actress-Leila-Hatami-faces-public-flogging.html
http://m.inquirer.net/newsinfo/?id=606058
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