Sun, 18 Feb 2007
16:00
Roger von Bakel takes Jim Henley to task:
Should we be OK with that, with any of that, or even just turn a blind eye to
it? Should we consult the chapter in our Political Correctness Handbook which
teaches that all cultures are morally equivalent, then acquiesce and nod
politely because within those countries' cultural and legal frameworks,
legalized brutality is par for the course?
Because sometimes, the horses NEED to be frightened
Stoning adulterers is not justice in any third-millennium, human sense of the
word. Honor killings of young women (with the authorities looking the other
way) don't amount to justice either. Nor do the executions of gay people; the
clitorectomies performed on writhing, screaming young girls; the insistence
that women must not drive cars and may not wear anything other than a burqa in
public; the state-sanctioned persecutions of former Muslims who've converted to
Christianity; the crackdown on dissent in places like Egypt and Algeria, where
bloggers and journalists face police beatings and jail time if they don't toe
the Islamic line. And on and on...
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15:51
Three unrelated links, no comment
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