I heard a bizarre piece of news this weekend. Apparently a man called Rahman [?] somebody or other has been tried and sentenced to death in Afghanistan. For those who have forgotten, the place was recently 'liberated' from some maniac cutthroat crew known as 'The Taliban' and has supposedly become a newly alleged 'liberal democratic' State.
Rahman's evil deed apparently was to convert from Islam to Christianity.
The Afgonigainians have certainly got a completely different interpretation of 'Liberal Democracy' to that adopted by our own fairly recently liberated turf here in the sunny south, notwithstanding the claims of Lonely Clingon-putative opposition leader-that our beloved government are hardly Liberal Democrats.
We know that in our own newly liberated State all forms of unbelievable criminality are rewarded with gentle treatment, kindness and a gentle pat on the head as if to an aberrant child and no murder goes well punished in the old eye for an eye sense; so it seems curious that this newly democratic State [Afgonigain] should reward its Christian Crusader liberator George [Dubya] Bush by executing those who convert to his particular brand of delusion.
In the old days it was more likely that anyone who didn't convert would be thrown to the lions-The religious freaks who now apparently run Kabul are demanding that Rahman [whatever] be thrown to the 'people' to be 'torn limb from limb'.
Isn't it curious that no matter how thoroughly modern we believe ourselves to be it takes only the tiniest scratch to reveal that barbarian past from which we have come. It was almost ironic that a line from the new futuristic 'life in neo fascist Britain' 'hot' movie on circuit at the moment: 'V for Vengeance', should state that anyone found with a copy of the Koran would be executed.
If our Blogspot hadn't been modified recently so's to prevent any of us naughty bloggers from inserting ye old prophet-eering cartoons onto the Blogspot and arousing the ire of despotic totalitarian mullahs, those artists amongst us could have had a field day with this story. It quite caps, for instance, that equally barbaric notion from Nigeria a couple of years ago that an adulterous [Islamic] woman should be stoned to death. [Perhaps this latter notion was less barbaric than the South African notion idea that a woman who was allegedly raped by a former deputy president should be raped again and again in the witness box as punishment for daring to object].
What do you think this proto-Taliban government in Afghanistan would have done to those who butchered a four year old girl in Lenasia a couple of week as ago? Oh gosh silly question everyone knows Muslims despise females as much as they despise apostates or anyone else who converts from their brand of intoxicating lunacy to someone else's -next thing you know it will be a capital offence in Afgonagain to drive an unauthorised Chinese motor vehicle, because the Chinese don't allow any religious behaviour at all, especially these various cargo cults.
Rumour has it though that Uncle Dubya isn't too upset at the behaviour of his new democratic acolytes-Rahman became a Catholic.
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Death is the punishment stipulated by Islamic law for apostasy- abandonment of the faith.
just that, and by default, some cultures will forever live in the past and if they could, in the stone age. It is probably easier to live that way than to attempt to think openly and logically and respect human life.
is this a rational or totalitarian position and do we really want to share a planet with people who will kill you for changing your belief system...surely the whole idea of a human rights culture is that people can believe what they choose provided they do not behave in a way thqat violates the rights of other people to do their own thing.
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