Sun Aug 19, 2012, 05:46 PM
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Author | Time | Post |
 Pakistan disabled girl arrested for blasphemy (Original post) |
Bosonic | Aug 2012 | OP |
| a geek named Bob | Aug 2012 | #1 | |
| movonne | Aug 2012 | #2 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #11 | |
| The Wielding Truth | Aug 2012 | #21 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #29 | |
| The Wielding Truth | Aug 2012 | #50 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #55 | |
| Ash_F | Aug 2012 | #63 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #66 | |
| Ash_F | Aug 2012 | #69 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #74 | |
| christx30 | Aug 2012 | #60 | |
| oldsarge54 | Aug 2012 | #57 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #58 | |
| panzerfaust | Aug 2012 | #26 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #28 | |
| sarcasmo | Aug 2012 | #18 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #30 | |
| hifiguy | Aug 2012 | #35 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #59 | |
| Macoy51 | Aug 2012 | #38 | |
| Dr. Strange | Aug 2012 | #40 | |
| hamsterjill | Aug 2012 | #47 | |
| Macoy51 | Aug 2012 | #56 | |
| The Wielding Truth | Aug 2012 | #54 | |
| ProudToBeBlueInRhody | Aug 2012 | #45 | |
| 4th law of robotics | Aug 2012 | #64 | |
| hifiguy | Aug 2012 | #3 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #34 | |
| hifiguy | Aug 2012 | #36 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #37 | |
| hifiguy | Aug 2012 | #39 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #41 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #73 | |
| cpwm17 | Aug 2012 | #70 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #71 | |
| cpwm17 | Aug 2012 | #76 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #78 | |
| Arugula Latte | Aug 2012 | #4 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #12 | |
| Arugula Latte | Aug 2012 | #14 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #16 | |
| Skittles | Aug 2012 | #22 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #31 | |
| JoeyT | Aug 2012 | #25 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #32 | |
| Arugula Latte | Aug 2012 | #42 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #46 | |
| Arugula Latte | Aug 2012 | #51 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #53 | |
| sarcasmo | Aug 2012 | #19 | |
| amuse bouche | Aug 2012 | #20 | |
| Politicub | Aug 2012 | #5 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #33 | |
| ProudToBeBlueInRhody | Aug 2012 | #44 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #48 | |
| Politicub | Aug 2012 | #68 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #72 | |
| Politicub | Aug 2012 | #79 | |
| virgogal | Aug 2012 | #6 | |
| WHEN CRABS ROAR | Aug 2012 | #7 | |
| Proletariatprincess | Aug 2012 | #9 | |
| WHEN CRABS ROAR | Aug 2012 | #10 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #13 | |
| Ashgrey77 | Aug 2012 | #62 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #67 | |
| LeftishBrit | Aug 2012 | #8 | |
| red dog 1 | Aug 2012 | #15 | |
| SoapBox | Aug 2012 | #17 | |
| iamthebandfanman | Aug 2012 | #23 | |
| limpyhobbler | Aug 2012 | #24 | |
| bananas | Aug 2012 | #27 | |
| christx30 | Aug 2012 | #61 | |
| ProudToBeBlueInRhody | Aug 2012 | #43 | |
| whathehell | Aug 2012 | #49 | |
| get the red out | Aug 2012 | #52 | |
| 4th law of robotics | Aug 2012 | #65 | |
| Odin2005 | Aug 2012 | #75 | |
| liberallibral | Aug 2012 | #77 |
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 05:51 PM
movonne (9,467 posts)
2. Well this is religion for you....and the Christians here are
Response to whathehell (Reply #11)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 09:45 PM
The Wielding Truth (8,438 posts)
21. ???? Islam is a religion and we have our fill of ignorant people.
Response to The Wielding Truth (Reply #21)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:24 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
29. Yes, but we have laws and a culture that prohibits executing people for "blasphemy"
Response to whathehell (Reply #29)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:08 PM
The Wielding Truth (8,438 posts)
50. We have R/R running for president/vp with loads of radical Teabaggers in Congress. We are looking
Response to The Wielding Truth (Reply #50)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:24 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
55. You and I are in complete agreement on that,
Response to Ash_F (Reply #63)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 06:05 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
66. Stow your bullshit.
Response to whathehell (Reply #66)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 08:01 PM
69. Reads like a post from Stormfront. nt/
Response to oldsarge54 (Reply #57)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 11:40 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
58. Nah.
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Response to whathehell (Reply #11)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 06:01 AM
26. ? not religion ?!? The girl may be executed for 'desecrating' a 'holy' book
Response to panzerfaust (Reply #26)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:22 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
28. Sure, because you see Protestants executing kids every day for blasphemy, Right?
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Sorry, bro, but condemning "religion" for that sort of behavior is like condemning "government"
for the actions of Stalin.  |
Response to movonne (Reply #2)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:27 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
30. In your pc dreams, bro.
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I've yet to hear of any Christian, however, extreme, advocating
arrest or execution of a child for blaphemy. .
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Response to whathehell (Reply #30)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:18 AM
35. The dominionists would have no problem with this.
Response to hifiguy (Reply #35)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 12:47 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
59. I know something about the Dominionists and yes, they are VERY scary, so much so
Response to Macoy51 (Reply #38)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 11:43 AM
40. It looks to me...
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like movonne has tried to protect us by sending out a warning of you and your ilk, what with your giving out backpacks of school supplies and feeding kids. We're onto you!
Welcome to DU!  |
Response to Macoy51 (Reply #38)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:34 PM
hamsterjill (4,292 posts)
47. Welcome to DU.
Response to Macoy51 (Reply #38)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:23 PM
The Wielding Truth (8,438 posts)
54. I know you and I are not comfortable in bosting our givings. You can not call out the good deeds of
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the generous atheists or organized religion critics who share our mission of political democracy. We celebrate your good deeds and the good deeds of all who come here to DU.
I get your point. But really, a fight to prove who is the best giver. Let's see who can give the most to keep a nation giving to it's needy and not it's wealthy 1%. |
Response to movonne (Reply #2)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:32 PM
ProudToBeBlueInRhody (10,301 posts)
45. Sorry, I disagree with that....
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 05:56 PM
3. More barbarism and idiocy in the name of
Response to hifiguy (Reply #3)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:50 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
34. Except this kind of "idiocy and barbarism" in modern times tends
Response to hifiguy (Reply #36)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 11:14 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
37. See the Constitution
Response to whathehell (Reply #37)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 11:31 AM
39. There is a sizable cadre of people in this country
Response to hifiguy (Reply #39)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:06 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
41. There is a sizable cadre of people in this country who believe in alien abductions.
Response to hifiguy (Reply #36)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 07:47 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
73. I saw it and answered it.
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Read your own posts before ordering others to "educate" themselves.
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Response to whathehell (Reply #34)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 10:17 PM
70. And often in countries being brutalized by evil MF'ers from Western countries
Response to cpwm17 (Reply #70)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 07:22 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
71. Sure, because no one does a bad thing on their own..It's always the "evil MF'ers" from the West.
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Please -- can't you see how patronizing that sounds?
"Some Pakistanis blame Christians for US bad behavior. It's more to do with plain old greed, selfishness, and bigotry in the US". As it often is in other countries as well. The third world is not all starry eyed innocents being corrupted
by the Big Bad West. |
Response to whathehell (Reply #71)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 09:33 AM
76. People are responsible for their own behavior - including us
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 05:59 PM
Arugula Latte (40,069 posts)
4. Ahh, religion. If only we could eradicate you like the pox you are.
Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #4)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:27 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
12. Sure, because you could find the same thing happening at a Methodist Church in Iowa, right?
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Try again.
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Response to whathehell (Reply #12)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:35 PM
Arugula Latte (40,069 posts)
14. Oh, yeah, 'cuz Midwestern Christians are never extremists, huh?
Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #14)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:53 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
16. Oh yeah...'cuz you think anyone who's not atheist is a right wing Christian "extremist", duh.
Response to whathehell (Reply #16)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 11:19 PM
Skittles (86,241 posts)
22. spoken like a true Christian
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Response to Skittles (Reply #22)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:34 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
31. Spoken like an atheist whose combined PC and "over reach" has cost them their credibility.
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Response to whathehell (Reply #16)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:39 AM
JoeyT (4,549 posts)
25. And you apparently think
Response to JoeyT (Reply #25)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:36 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
32. No, and I'd say it's "apparent" only to the type of non-discerning
Response to whathehell (Reply #32)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:22 PM
Arugula Latte (40,069 posts)
42. Here we are...yet another tidbit of Christian extremism in this country. Akin's pal:
Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #42)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:33 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
46. No one doubts there are plenty of extremist "thoughts" here, the point is
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that, unlike Pakistan, for instance, the laws and overall culture of this country won't ALLOW them to be acted out,
at least not with impunity or without penalty of law. When even Mississippi votes down the "personhood law" that makes a fertilized egg a "person", you know you're a long way from executing kids for blasphemy. |
Response to whathehell (Reply #46)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:16 PM
Arugula Latte (40,069 posts)
51. My point is that religion brings all societies down & the world would be much better off without it.
Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #51)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:19 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
53. Fine, but intellectual honesty should keep you from saying "theyre all same"
Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #4)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 08:18 PM
20. Can't
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find a word to disagree with
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Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:08 PM
Politicub (5,842 posts)
5. It's just a book. The people who arrested or called for the arrest sicken me.
Response to Politicub (Reply #5)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:39 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
33. You're getting close..
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but you're stil not quite brave enough to discern the "fundamentalism" of
every western religion you know from fundamentalist Islam, right? I understand.
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Response to whathehell (Reply #33)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:30 PM
ProudToBeBlueInRhody (10,301 posts)
44. Why don't you get close enough to admit....
Response to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Reply #44)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:38 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
48. Read my posts.
Response to whathehell (Reply #33)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 07:35 PM
Politicub (5,842 posts)
68. Let me be clear, then
Response to Politicub (Reply #68)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 07:43 AM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
72. We'll both be clear.
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Last edited Wed Aug 22, 2012, 07:45 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1) I also oppose "any Fundamentalism that brutalizes people or impedes free thinking", although I think
most would agree that "brutalizing" people is on a somewhat higher scale of evil than impeding free thought. So where is our argument? 
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Response to whathehell (Reply #72)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 05:38 PM
Politicub (5,842 posts)
79. I'm not sure
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But at least we both know where we stand
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Response to WHEN CRABS ROAR (Reply #7)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:43 PM
9. Thank you for posting this link.
Response to Proletariatprincess (Reply #9)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:01 PM
10. We have been conditioned to believe that we are a kind and peaceful nation.
Response to WHEN CRABS ROAR (Reply #10)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:29 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
13. Well, at least we're not inclined to arrest developmentally disabled children for blaphemy.
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Response to whathehell (Reply #13)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 02:27 PM
62. No we just burn people for being witches,
Response to Ashgrey77 (Reply #62)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 06:08 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
67. I think you want to use the PAST tense there, bro
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:37 PM
LeftishBrit (29,611 posts)
8. Horrifying
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:36 PM
red dog 1 (708 posts)
15. "She was carrying a waste bag which also had pages of the Koran"???
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:57 PM
17. Sick...and this is what no education looks like.
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:25 AM
23. its instances like this that i point too
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:09 AM
24. It's nice to think one of these mobs together with some Taliban could take over some Pakistani nukes
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 08:59 AM
27. I'm so glad that Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
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Response to bananas (Reply #27)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 02:11 PM
61. I agree with you
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And it's abso-fing-lutely wonderful that they get billions in aid from us. That aid goes a long way to stopping religious extreamism.
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Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:27 PM
ProudToBeBlueInRhody (10,301 posts)
43. It's the culture....
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.....you just don't understand!
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Response to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Reply #43)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 12:41 PM
whathehell (11,415 posts)
49. And what I think we all do "understand"
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 01:17 PM
get the red out (7,286 posts)
52. Makes you wonder
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 10:25 AM
77. So Sick, Twisted, and Backwards...
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Poor girl...
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