so....this is really bordering on percieved.....insanity...i dont know whats worse, the law, or the fact that so many want it instituted under islamic law....amazing, scary, and point proving for some.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12009717/

we will not be able to get away from this topic ever again i fear... :/

Doc B...

You know, there are two things that bother me deeply. I am not sure if this thread is the proper place to put it but it is marginally related.

1st, right after the war, a bunch of nuts went to the war area from the United states and assumed that it was their right, and place to initiate the area to their religion. This is a country, that has religious views predating anything in the United States, and yet, they wanted to enlighten them. Give me a f**king break.

2nd, people I see daily are giving people a hard time just because they assume that they are "Towel Heads" ... I was in a store just yesterday. It was a gas station/convenience store place. This woman was giving this person a hard time, IMO, just because they were not white, but looked Indian/Jew/Iranian.. or whatever brown skinned race the person truly was. The person behind the counter was nice and courteous and yet the woman constantly harangued her about something to do with her credit card not working and she had to use cash.

I am so tired of the racial abuse just because the person has a dot on their forehead, or speaks funny.

No, perhaps not, but as I said, its marginally related. We are discussing races, perhaps not racism, but cultural races.

You know what though? He knew in advance that it could happen, and chose to proceed anyway.

What you should do is hope that he made the right choice, for the reasons he felt were necessary to make them.

If he dies, he will have died for a belief that has been died for countless times before. Religious freedom.

He is not unique, but he could be the catalyst for change. Lets hope so.

In the back of my mind however, I feel that if he dies, knowing that he would have for committing this action then he got exactly what his fate dictated. If more people had to pay for their actions, then perhaps... *shrugs*

Who knows...

No, I do not blame him. I do feel that all choices have prices. This price is a bit steep, but still it was a payment clearly stated in advance of the decision.

As I said, lets hope that he is a catalyst for change. Sometimes it takes a martyr. Sadly it does.

Why hate to say so? I am in actuality right so infrequently that you could actually truly keep track of the events. It has got to be less than half a dozen times in the years I have been here.

I worry, for reasons damned few truly understand. I hope that I live to see racism eliminated. I am a pragmatist however and know the futility of such a wish. However, I still wish it.

In the end, all I can hope to do is go to bed each night with a clear conscience.

The thing here is, we expect a country to adapt to have respect for other religions as a western rule. And we expect this to happend in 2 years. But people dont realize that we used to have such a short viewed mind here to, 2/3 generations ago. Since generations pass by people will change, not in 2 years. And now everyone is pissed off about this, again, showing the short minded thinking of people.

I feel sorry for the christian, but that's life. I think its worse that 3000 africans die every day because we want to maintain or life style in the west.

It SHOULD be on the national news... I don't like AIDS.

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That Idea would be too smart.

Orph: I don't think we are dealing with anything more than "Actions = Consequences" because EVERY action has consequences. It doesn't matter if you knew about them beforehand or not. They're going to happen. Personally, I hope he doesn't get executed simply because I don't beleive that a country should be ruled by religious clergy, and because he's a Christian too.

I bet if I restructured your face, it'd make a point. Psh... Arkansas...

3 out of 4 is quite good....