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#921596
Mister Spak
"the closed-door ruling delivered a month ago in the absence of Yaqub Kambakhsh, his lawyer or family members,"
Islamic justice in action.
3/10/2009 6:31:48 AM
#921600
Thank God we invaded and brought peace and democracy to the region.
3/10/2009 6:37:06 AM
#921601
aaa
This is going to be a loooong operation.
3/10/2009 6:37:08 AM
#921602
ausador
This just gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling when I think about all our troops over there trying to rebuild that hellhole.
3/10/2009 6:38:21 AM
#921603
Higgs Boson
If they spoke English in the Middle East and Afghanistan, posts here about Christians nutjobs would constitute about 5% of the quotes here. As much as it is important to stand up to religious bigotry in the West, the fact is that the kind of stuff that is happening to Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh is our business too now. It is not just something that is happening "far away" - this is going on on our planet, and it has to be stopped.
3/10/2009 6:46:33 AM
#921606
I can not believe we've wasted hundreds of lives fighting for this, over there!!!!
3/10/2009 6:48:21 AM
#921610
What is with all the Islamic "fundies" being approved lately. Is one of the approvers/submitters an ardent Islamophobe or something?
3/10/2009 6:54:44 AM
#921613
Illuminatalie
What is with all the Islamic "fundies" being approved lately. Is one of the approvers / submitters an ardent Islamophobe or something?
The reality is that our christian religious extremists are a pale shadow of the ones that exist in the muslim world. We've gone easy on the muslim fundies because they are not in our face. But if christian fundies hassle people here and attempt to legislate their freedoms away, muslim fundies draw and quarter their extended families over there.
3/10/2009 7:06:13 AM
#921620
Berny
Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
The only victim here is Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh who will go to jail for 20 years simply for stating the obvious.
3/10/2009 7:19:45 AM
#921625
GreenEyedLilo
I just wish there was something I could do. This almost gives me an appreciation for America's Christian fundie fruitcakes, except I know some of them would consider this a good thing if it were done for Jesus. I agree with Higgs Boson--this is our business, too.
3/10/2009 7:35:27 AM
#921628
Xotan
Savagery. Just savagery. There is no point in trying to liberate a country that has such laws. The Taliban are still operating in their mindset.
3/10/2009 7:39:44 AM
#921644
John_in_Oz
I'd have accepted the Taliban's offer to hand Bin Ladin over for trial by an Islamic court. I'd have used the moral pressures resulting from 9/11 and the U.S. contribution to the fight against the Russians to engineer more engagement and pluralism in Afghanistan. I bet the world would be several thousand lives and several trillion dollars better off. And shy one mass murderer. And this sort of thing would be far less likely to happen.
3/10/2009 7:58:49 AM
#921654
Anon-e-moose
Enver Hoxha banned religion in Albania. Right idea, wrong country.
3/10/2009 8:14:46 AM
#921665
Doctor Whom
Christian fundies in America would do this too if they could get away with it. For the fact that they can't, thanks be to the Enlightenment and constitutional government, not to any supposed innate superiority of Christianity over Islam.
3/10/2009 8:30:05 AM
#921670
some people seem to think the states and canada and such are trying to destroy their culture and rebuild in our image. I have to say, would that be a bad thing?
3/10/2009 8:42:06 AM
#921681
Laughing Man
*shakes head sadly
Really why are we even over there, that is not freedom at all. I really hate to sound cold but these countries need to be left alone. If they are not posing a threat to the world I.E. Iran and its nukes, lets just stay out - no aid to the people no interfering if there is a coup nothing. Let them live in the middle ages like they apparently want to.
3/10/2009 9:04:45 AM
#921684
spaceamoeba
Poor guy standing for equal rights and this is what he gets, I hope this pushes the Afghans into responding back by not standing down.
3/10/2009 9:06:48 AM
#921688
Old Viking
His best defense would have been, "Geez, fellahs, I didn't mean equal "
3/10/2009 9:15:29 AM
#921689
Old Viking
His best defense would have been, "Geez, fellahs, I didn't mean that equal."
3/10/2009 9:16:27 AM
#921690
Dio Fa
The quality of life for the Afghan people has improved so much since the ousting of the Taliban.
3/10/2009 9:19:10 AM
#921702
Thundersqueaks
At least he escaped being beheaded, or stoned to death.
3/10/2009 9:49:18 AM
#921703
What is with all the Islamic "fundies" being approved lately. Is one of the approvers/submitters an ardent Islamophobe or something?
What is with all the Christian "fundies" being approved lately. Is one of the approvers/sumbitters an ardent Christianphobe or something?
3/10/2009 9:49:48 AM
#921708
Eden
Truely sick.
But not surprising.
Everyone claiming that men and women are equal must be a danger for the male domination in the islamist society and therefore for the current status quo.
If they don´t want their society to become westernized (with equal rights for men and women) they have to fight against anyone who speaks out inconvenient truths, even if it is just the fact that mnen and women are equal.
Well, had Bush shown at least a little bit of intelligence, he would have concentrated his efforts into bringing western values to Afghanistan instead of immediately starting the next war.
3/10/2009 9:58:32 AM
#921709
What is with all the Islamic "fundies" being approved lately. Is one of the approvers/submitters an ardent Islamophobe or something?
What is with all the Christian "fundies" being approved lately. Is one of the approvers/sumbitters an ardent Christianphobe or something?
3/10/2009 9:59:54 AM
#921715
Iraq, Afghanistan: two places where the West has interfered, in neither have human rights been advanced, in fact in Iraq the society has turned back some 500 years
3/10/2009 10:14:51 AM
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