On 5/09/2010 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>It takes a bit to piss me off, however I saw on SBS TV news tonight that
>a woman in Iran, sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery, recently
>had a photograph of herself published in a London newspaper. It was a photo
>of her face and because she was not wearing the burka (sp?) covering it,
>she has been given an additional sentence of 99 lashes with a (cane or
>whip)?
>
>The little I have heard of the case indicates that the adultery charge
>is questionable, however regardless of the morality / lack of it, this/these
>punishments are just plain wrong (in my white-anglo-saxon-western-way-of-thinking).
>
>This pisses me off.
>I now understand better where racism, or at least religeous-ism can begin.
>: (
Well it pisses me off too, but I also get pissed off by people wanting to go and invade because of it. There is no historical example of democracy being successfully installed by force. The stuff going on now in the Arab world shows that a real change comes from inside. |