Terror in Iraq: 29 people been killed in stadium

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Stoning adulterers to death, aside from being barbaric, is also naive, discriminatory in its practise and ultimately futile. The rich and powerful influence their way out of punishment(who the f.uck is gonna do it in front of 4 witnesses anyway lol) while if the guys poor he gets made into a scapegoat. There have actually been documented cases of the poor and powerless being victimized by this law in Islamic countries.

Ot: tragic and terrible. Perhaps what the Islamic world really needs is to stop glorifying death and the believers alleged willingness to embrace it. Only by stripping them of their false sense of 'honor' and replacing it with the belittlement and humiliation such an outdated way of thinking deserves.

 

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Stoning adulterers to death, aside from being barbaric, is also naive, discriminatory in its practise and ultimately futile. The rich and powerful influence their way out of punishment(who the f.uck is gonna do it in front of 4 witnesses anyway lol) while if the guys poor he gets made into a scapegoat. There have actually been documented cases of the poor and powerless being victimized by this law in Islamic countries.

Ot: tragic and terrible. Perhaps what the Islamic world really needs is to stop glorifying death and the believers alleged willingness to embrace it. Only by stripping them of their false sense of 'honor' and replacing it with the belittlement and humiliation such an outdated way of thinking deserves.

Yeah man as if rich businness man who rapes his maid will get a sentence. These witless lawswould mostly target poor/women/minorities aka marginalized groups.

Appearantly football is a very important tradition in Iraq and it is a very unifying activity where religions and ethnicities do not matter.

@LadyB, like it or not we can not live by rules made 1400 years ago. The fact that how main defence when it comes to controversial parts of Islam/Muhammed is "well back then it was like that..." proves that everything including religion needs to fit in its time.

No matter how universal and basic they are even eating habits, sleeping hours, science, education changed over time. The religion at its best should be and is a personal choice, and you can not choose who to insult and who to kill based on religion we should have proper laws for that. And do not worry, secularism/laicism also protects freedom of belief; it is the reason why there are mosques in USA and churches standing in Istanbul; regardless of how minority the believers are every person should have equal right to live up to their faith and this would not be a possibility in a theocracy.

So next time when you ask "who decides what is barbaric or not" bear in mind that the answer is not the book lastly edited 1400 years ago.