The good news: For now, a court in Afghanistan is in no rush to execute Abdul Rahman, ordering prosecutors to do a mental health evaluation of the convert to Christianity. The bad news: Such clashes of democratic freedoms and Islamic law surely will continue to occur in our Muslim ally countries, most notably Iraq.
When they do, the Bush administration must be more clear and swift in condemning this kind of violation of religious freedom. If such cases become the rule rather than the exception, the American public’s already waning support for continued deployment of U.S. troops in these countries could vaporize.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Mark Steyn said it best:
“Very few societies are genuinely multicultural. Most are bicultural: On the one hand, there are folks who are black, white, gay, straight, pre-op transsexual, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, worshippers of global-warming doom-mongers, and they rub along as best they can. On the other hand, there are folks who do not accept the give-and-take, the rough-and-tumble of a “diverse” “tolerant” society, and, when one gently raises the matter of their intolerance, they threaten to kill you, which makes the question somewhat moot.”
I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the Nation of Islam to embrace religious freedom or tolerance. Instilling a Democratic government will not do anything to change their ideology, they’ll just vote in an Islamic extremist, just like Iran did.
Not always damoon – Lebanon has managed to remain diverse; also several high officials in the palestinian Authority (including some Hamas members) are Christian.
Diversity worked great in the former Yugolsavia too!
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
looks like the firing squad is reserved for those of us whom they can dispatch discreetly, without the attention of the world media and the Vatican, sans Tiannanmen Square Massacre.
Founder of Delta Force, Eric Haney, says Bush is an utter idiot and liar:
Q: What’s your assessment of the war in Iraq?
A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and … pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That’s why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.
We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.
Q: What is the cost to our country?
A: For the first thing, our credibility is utterly zero. So we destroyed whatever credibility we had. … And I say “we,” because the American public went along with this. They voted for a second Bush administration out of fear, so fear is what they’re going to have from now on.
Our military is completely consumed, so were there a real threat – thankfully, there is no real threat to the U.S. in the world, but were there one, we couldn’t confront it. Right now, that may not be a bad thing, because that keeps Bush from trying something with Iran or with Venezuela.
The harm that has been done is irreparable. There are more than 2,000 American kids that have been killed. Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed ñ which no one in the U.S. really cares about those people, do they? I never hear anybody lament that fact. It has been a horror, and this administration has worked overtime to divert the American public’s attention from it. Their lies are coming home to roost now, and it’s gonna fall apart. But somebody’s gonna have to clear up the aftermath and the harm that it’s done just to what America stands for. It may be two or three generations in repairing.
More at http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3641046
You can bet the next apostate will be dealt with a bit more discreetly! As for Lebanon, how many died in their religious civil war, before the current truce?
How’s this for “democracy”?
“According to Iraqi police, 11 bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the house, among them four women and five children aged between six months and five years. An official police report obtained by a US reporter for Knight Ridder newspapers said: “The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people.”
“The Abu Sifa deaths on March 15 were first reported last weekend on the day that Time magazine published the results of a 10-week investigation into an incident last November when US marines killed 15 civilians in their homes in the western Iraqi town of Haditha.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2103695,00.html
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Massacring children in their bedclothes for “freedom.”
And having to read about it from the foreign press.
We’ve become Al Qaeda. George W. Bush can’t kill or capture Osama–he IS Osama.
Hey . . . where’s Brandon when you need him?
Let’s see how the “Flyover Blogster” can rationalize wholesale slaughter of Iraqi children.
C’mon, Suck Up, you can do it!
“Let’s see how the “Flyover Blogster” can rationalize wholesale slaughter of Iraqi children.”
Preemptive strike! they may have grown up to be terrorists in ten to fifteen years.
LMAO writerdog. You are on a ROLL this week!
PL, this is the post of the week so far.
“We’ve become Al Qaeda. George W. Bush can’t kill or capture Osama–he IS Osama.”
Now THAT is truth… not truthiness.
The question is to our ultra-conservative friends over over here who would like to see every aspect of life heavily leaning to the right: Do you want an Iraq or Afghanistan and the whole Arab world for that matter that is equally Ultra-conservative?
“Massacring children in their bedclothes for “freedom.”
And having to read about it from the foreign press.
We’ve become Al Qaeda. George W. Bush can’t kill or capture Osama–he IS Osama.”
PL: You have represented yourself as a former military man. Do you believe everything you read? Are you the least bit skeptical when the notoriously liberal anti-war British press prints a hit piece on the US military? I am.
Consider the source.