Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
...This thread is not about the WMD issue, or "the war on Iraq issue" or ANYTHING ELSE except that this, the fact that ping put on death row for
being pagan, or psychic, or even when some idiot claims he is impotent because of a woman, or they claim their chickens are dying because of a witch,
etc....
This is what this thread is about, it is happening in Saudi Arabia and people are being sent to their deaths because of their beliefs, or because
someone claims they are a witch, or a sorcerer.... NOTHING more, and nothing less...
Well bless its pointed little head...
Actually, what I said was "Why did I invoke the idea of invading them? ", which kind of infers that it was me that brought the subject up, so that
when you say "You claimed that I was puting(sic) this thread forth as some excuse to invade Saudi Arabia, WHEN I NEVER SAID OR EVEN IMPLIED SUCH A
THING..."...well, that's not quite so. But don't trouble yourself with the details.
My point? Again? The interweb gives us an open window like never before. We can put things under a microscope, but I think that privalege compels us
to act upon them. Further, awful things happen all over. Sometimes they are politically expedient to occur, sometimes they are politically expedient
to ignore. How we react is dictated by our conscience. On the whole, the west has given the Saudi's a free pass, cuz if it weren't for the Royals,
you'd have a whole whack of Wahabi Immams with an inordinate amount of loot and their hands on the oil-faucet.
It's good of you, Sparky, to point out these bad things, but your energy might be better applied to contacting your government and demanding
that...as our good buddies...the Saudi's ought to enter the last century. If we are so morally outraged, we could invade them...as we are told was
done for A-stan and Iraq (now, anyway)...or apply some pressure economically.
Either way, there is a great deal of hypocricy at play here, (societally, Sparky, not you in particular) and it's all too easy to take shots at the
A-rabs. Who's that right-wing American preacher that refuses to criticise his Nigerian cohort's support of a death penalty for gays?
This shows that we still have some neanderthals roaming about and puting(sic) words on people's mouth instead of learning to read what other
people write.
Have you heard the studies that suggest that Neanderthal was smarter, but was overtaken by CroMagnon because he was sneakier? Read that on the web,
too.
A self edit to add that I share your abhorrence at these medieval practices, and while I do appreciate them being brought forward, I find that our
offence, as a society, is generally taken selectively.
Not putting any words in your mouth.
[edit on 1-12-2009 by JohnnyCanuck]
