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  1. triumf said:

    I doesn't matter if they had conflict; it would be different than that of a Islamic Ottoman Empire,
    not to mention there are several factors that would change - sharing of information, shifting of populations, overall willingness to communicate that would effect Arabia differently

    - If the Ottomans didn't become weak, they wouldn't be overpowered by the western counterparts, if the western nations didn't colonize and establish pro-west rulers who were essentially authoritarians then Islam wouldn't have been politicized. Religion could have completely made the difference in how things are today.

    Note that I'm not blaming Islam and Islam alone.

    Your comment is a "if not then" kind but it has happened so it´s all speculation.

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  2. palmtop-tiger said:
    Being Muslim doesn't automaticly mean stoning is a part of your beliefs. Stoning wasn't always a punishment in Iran, and not all Islamic countries practice it.

    It just irks me when people judge a whole group on the actions of a few.

    if the majority of that country doesn't agree, but doesn't speak up, or persist with the current status quo, I don't see why we can't judge them for it

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  3. dirtypair said:

    Your comment is a "if not then" kind but it has happened so it´s all speculation.

    I know :s

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  4. tingle said:
    I prefer Cheech and Chong's guide to getting stoned then this one.

    ^this^

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  5. In India, they call this rajam.

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  6. tingle said:just so y'all know the United Nations General Assembley has removed being gay from the list of things you can not execute someone for. It past with wide support from arab, carribean, and african countries. SO watch out for those traps they could get you killed.

    Fuck the UN. Seriously. They're a bunch of fucking cowards who only care about the rights of one group and don't give a fuck who else gets oppressed. Guess which group that is?

    Unfortunately, their mentality seems to be becoming increasingly common amongst people who deem themselves politically correct. They're far too obsessed with cultural relativism.

    Cultural relativism, BTW, is the phenomenon of middle-class white people spouting supposedly liberal rhetoric whilst abandoning the most vulnerable people in the world to dictators and theocrats just so that they can feel warm and fuzzy about "diversity"*. Naturally, these white middle class people demand that they be treated according to Western values; heaven forbid that they should ever have to endure the treatment to which they condemn others.

    In WWII, they'd probably have condemned the Allies for interfering with German culture.

    *I say "diversity", but again, they only seem to be worried about the customs of one minority group

    deadbeat said:

    if the majority of that country doesn't agree, but doesn't speak up, or persist with the current status quo, I don't see why we can't judge them for it

    I endorse this post 100%

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  7. the UN are incompetent they allow genocide after genocide they "establish" a nation of Kurdistan and then just stand by as the Kurds get gassed by everyone around them. Darfur not only occurs but gets backed up by Kofi's diamond smuggling son but sanctions are locked by China in a literal blood for oil situation as darfuri oil is sold to china on the cheap by the sudanese. Even when they do good they fail (see Hotel Ruwanda)

    The UN is so impotent they can't even pay back the 9 million dollar loan for the building in new york. I'm glad they are impotent because if they had power they would be a hate group. well that's my opinion at least they give charity from time to time.

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  8. The UN are only incompetent because its mainly a 'figurehead' of the developed nations. And then the issue of the entire key Security council being deadlocked due to all the partisan views dividing it

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  9. Still, people can say all they want. I come to the conclusion that religious-based or not, problems like this will still occur no matter how perfect a law is so long humans still are the ones to carry it out. One may claim stoning to be savage, but modern laws aren't much different. For example sometimes ago, and maybe is still being done by some, electric chairs wtf.

    Of course, there's no other sentient beings that can run the laws. This is why the fundamental rule regarding punishment in religions is to carry it out when you've made sure of the guilty status of the defendant as according to the laws. If any injustice occurs, god will make sure the defendant will have justice in his/her afterlife and those who executed said person will pay big time. So you see it's not only based on a law system but also part of the belief. It is a faith system after all.

    Also, things will fuck up, either by religious or modern laws/punishments, so long indecent lawyers who shift opinions depending on the amount of money he gets is present.

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    WPE

    "muslims are at it again"

    ahahaha yes indeed. muslims are the only people in the world who execute people viciously. epic win op.

    Fuck you.

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  11. worstposterever said:
    "muslims are at it again"

    ahahaha yes indeed. muslims are the only people in the world who execute people viciously. epic win op.

    Fuck you.

    LOL, I like you.. I'll be stalking you. >:3

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  12. worstposterever said:
    "muslims are at it again"

    ahahaha yes indeed. muslims are the only people in the world who execute people viciously. epic win op.

    Fuck you.

    Well put, you pretty much summed up what I've said in 3 very short paragraph. I guess that response worked for other people who tl;dr me.

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  13. bondtravolta said:

    Well put, you pretty much summed up what I've said in 3 very short paragraph. I guess that response worked for other people who tl;dr me.

    I find your interpretation of events amusing. I'll let you work out why.

    Anyway, your post smacked of political correctness. In order to avoid accepting the idea that some cultures are worse than others (something you've been brainwashed to believe is false ever since you were a child, if you live in a Western country), you equated things that weren't equatable and came out with the wishy-washy response that humans are bad everywhere. That's true, but humans are generally worse in some places than others. Saying that humans are all bad therefore they are equal is like saying that elephants and planets are equal because they are both big.

    In the 21st century, the Islamic countries are the only places in the world with any kind of economic and technological development where it is so commonplace for people to be executed so brutally and for the executors to have such fun doing it. They're also the only places in the world with any kind of economic and technological development where it is still common in the 21st century for people to be executed for such retarded reasons. The people getting stoned to death aren't all murderers. Some of them were killed for doing things that we consider not only to not be worthy of the death penalty, but to not be criminal at all. The only other places where this happens are countries where absolute poverty and belief in witchcraft is still common. In these places too, dark age religions are to blame for such retarded behaviour, but at least people there have an excuse for believing such nonsense.

    To compare stoning a woman to death for reporting a rape to the methods of execution used for murderers in the United States is laughable, and something only someone with a strong agenda would do, in order to avoid facing the fact that leftist dogma about cultural relativism might just be a little misinformed.

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  14. kudichan said:

    you've been brainwashed to believe is false ever since you were a child,

    It's true. :3

    Nearly everyone has been brainwashed in so many things. It's sad really.

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  15. ^ to sociologists, and likewise to many academics, its not called brainwashed, its called the socialization process. Absolutely fascinating if you read more into it....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization

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  16. kudichan said:

    Stuffs

    Just to note that these execution is only done to people who are forewarned of the consequences for doing stuffs, and only to those who pledged faith under said belief system. The law is so strict because it was invented to protect the good people from false reports meant to bring them harm. These people have been forewarned of the consequences of reporting rape without meeting the qualified criteria and yet they still do it. Sure, people are bound to twist the laws to their own benefit but that happens everywhere right? And no execution is justifiable so long the people judging it is wrong.

    Also, know that these countries impose these kinds of public execution partly to strike fear into the public with the intention of warning them what would happen should they do the same. You can't go around saying your style of execution is more humane and just enough to teach the public not to commit the same mistake without going as far. You accuse me of equating something not equateable, but you're doing the same thing to the people in the countries you despise so much. For example, somewhere back people from outside says it's inhumane for Saddam Hussein to be cruel towards a certain group of people. This isn't in Islamic laws, and I don't agree with his methods but at least he is right about oppressing these people rather than letting them commit war against their own countrymen even though honestly he can do much better, probably. Now that Saddam Hussein is no more thanks to some gov making accusations towards Iraq that constantly shifts in subject until it eventually pointed to him, look what happened to the people. See, these people aren't your average neighborhood buddies, they'd wage war against other people just because they believe in the religion in a different way than the others. That's just saying one thing, but for sure their unruly bunch is beyond control and it had to take these execution & laws to make them quieter.

    And by the way, I'm not picking the electric chair without a reason. See, it was invented because certain people complained of how inhumane death sentence by hanging is, among other reasons. Thus it was invented. At the first use of it, the victim didn't die and cried in extreme pain. They panicked and raised the voltage and do a second run. Then said person died, but his eyes started to bleed out & his body is rock stiff. After then, they said these chairs are improvised. They no longer hurt, but did anyone knew for sure? Besides, I'm also picking it to compare it with stoning, which isn't in any way more humane than the execution brought to attention here.

    What I'm saying is, these are laws god imposed. You're only bound by it if you pledge faith under it. And when you do be prepared to face it should you do any wrong it forbids that requires execution. It made it for a reason, and humans aren't any more knowledgeable as to know what's right from wrong. Don't like it? Don't get involved in the belief system. Also, you're not from those parts, how would you know how unjustified it is? I'm not saying I agree with everything there either since things & beliefs aren't so pure anymore as with the divisions of sects and stuffs, but outsiders are in no place to poke one's nose in another's matters and claim they know better on what things should be done and what's not.

    Also, just because they're modern as is someplace else, doesn't mean they can't choose their own laws. You can't excuse the backwards people while you accuse these people. For all you know you've been brainwashed as well as to believe what's right in only your views.

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  18. bondtravolta said:

    PC nonsense and apologetics

    Wow, your English got worse and worse as that post went on. Were you crying or screaming at your monitor at the end? :D

    Anyway, let's have a look at some of the outrageous things you've said just because you don't want to admit that a country that endorses stoning is barbaric:

    bondtravolta said:

    Just to note that these execution is only done to people who are forewarned of the consequences for doing stuffs, and only to those who pledged faith under said belief system. The law is so strict because it was invented to protect the good people from false reports meant to bring them harm. These people have been forewarned of the consequences of reporting rape without meeting the qualified criteria and yet they still do it. Sure, people are bound to twist the laws to their own benefit but that happens everywhere right? And no execution is justifiable so long the people judging it is wrong.

    Did you hear that, guys? If you become dictator, you can execute people for whatever you want, so long as you tell people that they'll be executed! Wanna kill anyone who wear socks and sandals? It's OK! As long as they know they'll be killed for it, it's all good. Who cares about just laws?

    And bond, do you realise you've just defended a legal system under which people are punished for reporting crimes and therefore have no legal recourse when something is done to them? A legal system where the victim is punished instead of the criminal? And that you're wrong about the law being there to prevent false accusations? Women are executed for being raped because the judges decide that anyone who gets raped must deserve it.

    bondtravolta said:Also, know that these countries impose these kinds of public execution partly to strike fear into the public with the intention of warning them what would happen should they do the same. You can't go around saying your style of execution is more humane and just enough to teach the public not to commit the same mistake without going as far. You accuse me of equating something not equateable, but you're doing the same thing to the people in the countries you despise so much. For example, somewhere back people from outside says it's inhumane for Saddam Hussein to be cruel towards a certain group of people. This isn't in Islamic laws, and I don't agree with his methods but at least he is right about oppressing these people rather than letting them commit war against their own countrymen even though honestly he can do much better, probably. Now that Saddam Hussein is no more thanks to some gov making accusations towards Iraq that constantly shifts in subject until it eventually pointed to him, look what happened to the people. See, these people aren't your average neighborhood buddies, they'd wage war against other people just because they believe in the religion in a different way than the others. That's just saying one thing, but for sure their unruly bunch is beyond control and it had to take these execution & laws to make them quieter.

    So, are you saying that people in the Middle-East are naturally more barbaric and need barbaric laws to keep them in check? Cool racism, bro. Did you ever stop to think that maybe the mediaeval belief system is the cause of all the violence over there rather than the thing holding it back?

    And did you ever stop to think that maybe I don't endorse any capital punishment? Don't think that because I believe American methods aren't as bad that I must think they're justified. You might not see shades of grey, but some people do. I think American executions are bad. I think Middle-Eastern executions are bad. However, I think Middle-Easter methods are worse. You can't see this distinction because you think that there are no degrees of "badness" and that everything bad is equal. Do you think that eating babies is as bad as stealing $1? They're both bad, so by your logic there's no distinction.

    bondtravolta said:And by the way, I'm not picking the electric chair without a reason. See, it was invented because certain people complained of how inhumane death sentence by hanging is, among other reasons. Thus it was invented. At the first use of it, the victim didn't die and cried in extreme pain. They panicked and raised the voltage and do a second run. Then said person died, but his eyes started to bleed out & his body is rock stiff. After then, they said these chairs are improvised. They no longer hurt, but did anyone knew for sure? Besides, I'm also picking it to compare it with stoning, which isn't in any way more humane than the execution brought to attention here.

    Yes, the electric chair was used because people thought it would be more humane. It turned out that the death wasn't as painless as people thought, but the intention was to make things more humane. That mentality doesn't exist amongst people who use stoning.

    BTW, the electric chair is no longer used in most US states and where it is used, it is up to the inmate to decide between it and lethal injection.

    bondtravolta said:What I'm saying is, these are laws god imposed. You're only bound by it if you pledge faith under it. And when you do be prepared to face it should you do any wrong it forbids that requires execution. It made it for a reason, and humans aren't any more knowledgeable as to know what's right from wrong. Don't like it? Don't get involved in the belief system. Also, you're not from those parts, how would you know how unjustified it is? I'm not saying I agree with everything there either since things & beliefs aren't so pure anymore as with the divisions of sects and stuffs, but outsiders are in no place to poke one's nose in another's matters and claim they know better on what things should be done and what's not.

    This may shock you, but most people don't get a choice about what religion they belong to. These people are declared Muslim at birth, and guess what happens if they decide they don't want to be Muslims any more?

    It takes an incredible amount of intellectual dishonesty or downright ignorance to say that stoning is OK because these people pledge their faith to a religion. They don't have the choice to not pledge their faith.

    bondtravolta said:Also, just because they're modern as is someplace else, doesn't mean they can't choose their own laws. You can't excuse the backwards people while you accuse these people. For all you know you've been brainwashed as well as to believe what's right in only your views.

    This is just descended into whining.

    Normally, I'd say that you were trolling. However, we're talking about religion here, and it's common for people to come out with profoundly retarded things in order to defend religion or religious practices.

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  19. So it came to this. I was helping myself to the taste of the kinds of people who will always hate us to see why & try to reason with it. Now I know why and as everyone says it's a waste of time, really. You will always find something to pick on.

    You just bashed the proceeding without knowing what it's really like either, there is a legal recourse. We don't let the criminal get away as easily as you think and we don't just stone anybody, especially not anybody who reported rape that happens to others/themselves. At this point I won't care to elaborate because nothing will ever satisfy you, who judge by your perception and things you see alone. I'm not saying the people who did this doesn't accept bribery and illegitimate means for personal gains like elsewhere, but that doesn't mean the laws are automatically wrong.

    And yeah, I did think about all this. Consequences on quitting said religion? Death, right? Maybe seems harsh to you, but we care about our fellow brothers. These are people who have been thought about belief & good moral that cares both for them and the people around them, and to not be selfish & misleading. It's not just about stoning & all the bad things you claim we're into, which we don't do either without a legit reason. You might say that I'm not thinking out of the box, but here I'm also implying that you're so prone to thinking out of the box that you think whatever that are inside the box as no longer eligible for thoughts. Isn't every matter can only be rightfully justified when taking perspectives from all involved parties into account? And taking every matter from head to tail into consideration?

    In the end, people like you will never accept others' ways just because it's you condemning them. How I can appeal reason to a person who won't believe that an army of phoenix once descended to stop an army of infidels on war elephants threatening to wipe believers off of earth just because they pledge faith under it? End note, you who won't have faith will never come to bring yourself to even attempt at understanding things.

    Enough of this. I will indulge no further in this flaming. You can deem us wrong all you want and get nothing from it.

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  20. bondtravolta said:

    ALLAHU AKBAR!

    This is why I worry about Europe's future.

    Actually, wait...

    Did I just get trolled? He wasn't being serious, was he?

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