Afghan woman's choice: 12 years in jail or marry her rapist and risk death

CNN ^ | November 22, 2011 | Nick Paton Walsh & Masoud Popalza

[allmendream]

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[Forward the Light Brigade]

Its just good old 15th Century Islam—Sharia Law. Just wait till its imposed here! It will have some fun element! No more women’s liberation! It will vanish under away! Fathers can kill their daughters if they misbehave! We can slay gays! We can get rid of all those pesky Church people who knock on our doors! No more Christmas hassels! In fact Christmas will be banned! No more loans or interest! Sadly we will have to get rid of all pork and all dogs—I will miss the Pulled Pork sandwiches. We will all have to learn Arabic-—much harder than Spanish—but we can have four wives! It will be just dandy. Don’t worry, after the USA converts we will start screwing around with Islam—reforming it —changing it—they will hate us more then than now.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Okay! You’ve convinced me! I see the light, uh, Noor.

ALLAHU AKHBAR!

Not.

Guess that makes me an apostate now :-)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Jefferson and the other founding fathers sowed the seeds of a Democracy in fertile soil. The Middle East is barren and parched and the seed will find no purchase.

[Mr. Lucky]

If the murder of unborn children is outlawed, people will rape each other?

Yeah, that's a well thought out argument.