Reply #38: and in other matters

[iverglas]

Indeed, just recently in the North American continent I inhabit a certain country with a long parliamentary tradition handed down from England debated whether to allow a certain religious minority to abandon the common law of Western Civilization and permit Sharia "law" to call the score in "domestic" disputes: this would have meant that, in practice, a Muslim woman in Vancouver could have been stoned to death for adultery because her husband caught her casting a gaze that lingered a bit too long over the guy at the next table who was wolfing down donut holes.

This is a filthy lie.

It reflects nothing but bigotry toward both the group whose proposals you characterize so completely falsely and bigotry toward the group that engaged in a thorough (if, on some sides, bigoted) examination of the proposals.

Oh, hell. My apologies. Maybe you don't actually know that the statement you have made is so false that it has stunk up the world for miles around. The statement you have made could actually just reflect your complete ignorance of the truth. In which case it wouldn't really be a filthy lie, would it?

You could always tell us which it is. Are you lying (and if so, why??), or are you ignorant (and if so, why??)?

And it's doughnut, for pity's sake.