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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

There Is No Morality Without Religion

posted by on November 5 at 8:25 AM

NYT:

The United Nations said Tuesday that a Somali stoned to death by Islamist militants after she had been accused of adultery was a 13-year-old girl who had been raped while visiting her grandmother.

In the first such public killing by the militants in about two years, she was placed in a hole and stoned to death on Oct. 28 in a rebel-held port city, Kismayu, in front of a crowd, after local leaders said she was guilty under Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran.

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ugh... Now, more than ever is the UNITED States of America needed to regain its political and moral leadership of the world. So many of our fellow humans live in darkness. Its a struggle worth our national will.

Posted by Tom | November 5, 2008 8:35 AM
2

I bet the stone throwers were joined by gleeful Mormons, too.

Posted by Balt-O-Matt | November 5, 2008 8:40 AM
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Do you think we should withdraw immediately from Iraq and the middle east?

Posted by John Bailo | November 5, 2008 9:04 AM
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Religion is dangerous.

Posted by Ren | November 5, 2008 9:07 AM
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if anyone has a good solution for somalia, other than taking all their women away to amurka, please raise your hands.

Posted by max solomon | November 5, 2008 9:47 AM
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bailo, yes. our presence there inflames, rather than liberalizes them. we don't make things "better" by being there, we inspire a radical resistance. watch anything besides fox news and you'd see that, you tool.

Posted by ellarosa | November 5, 2008 9:53 AM
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Woah. Buzzkill.

Nothing like a stoning to remind me how much work there is to do.

Religion poisons EVERYTHING.

Posted by spondee | November 5, 2008 9:57 AM

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