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Originally posted by MagiK:
Again Skunk...you are not accounting for what gets "reported" as a crime.
Hell if you make everything legal...there's no crime at all....
Did the interpol figures count the crimes detailed as "subserive thought" which can get you shot? Or the crime of "Christianity" which can get you killed? Or the crime of being an infidel? Somehow I do not believe your figures compare apples to apples.
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Magik, your hatred of all things middle-eastern comes from ignorance and an educational program founded on hollywood movies.
Were you aware that Syrian troops fought alongside the US in the Gulf War?
Furthermore, 8% of the Syrian population are Christian they are not 'shot' everyday or they wouldn't constitute such a sizeable minority. There are no legal restrictions on Christianity - muslims are free to convert to christianity without penalty. You will also find a not insignificant number of syrians of the jewish and Yazidi faiths too - also living without persecution or fear. Approximately, a further 3% of the population are aethists too.
"The confidence of the Christians in Syria is something you can't help notice the minute you arrive in the country. This is particularly so if you arrive from eastern Turkey. There, until very recently, minority languages like the Aramaic spoken by Syrian Orthodox Christians were banned from the airwaves and from schools. For Christianity in eastern Turkey is a secretive affair, and the government has closed all the country's seminaries. But cross into Syria and you find a very different picture. Qamishli, the first town on the Syrian side of the frontier, is 75 percent Christian, and icons of Christ and the Virgin Mary fill shops and decorate every other car window - an extraordinary display after the furtiveness of Christianity in Turkey.
http://www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com...ves%20amid.htm
and in Iran the practice of alternative faiths is also guaranteed under the constitution:
"In accordance with the sacred verse; ("God does not forbid you to deal kindly and justly with those who have not fought against you because of your religion and who have not expelled you from your homes" [60:8]), the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and all Muslims are duty-bound to treat non-Muslims in conformity with ethical norms and the principles of Islamic justice and equity, and to respect their human rights. This principle applies to all who refrain from engaging in conspiracy or activity against Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Here is a fine example of Islamic justice:
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No, that is an example of Sharia justice punishing a Hadd offence. In all of the middle-eastern countries (excluding the US's allies, UAE, Saudia Arabia and Sudan), Hadd offences are *not* recognised in the legal code - and neither are Hadd punishments administered (Iran by the way, ceased 'stoning' in January of this year).
So if you want Hadd punishments to be ended, lobby your government to stop supporting regimes where it is practiced, Saudia Arabia, Pakistan, Nigeria, UAE etc - and start supporting regimes where it is illegal, like Iran, Syria, Lebanon...
[ 08-27-2003, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Skunk ]