Posted on 03/20/2005 7:33:03 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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Four months in jail after 275 lashes seems very optimistic that he will survive, but that's the beauty of sharia, all is the will of allah. Saudi Arabia hasn't progressed from the Code of Hammuribi, king of Baylon, seventeen hundred years BC.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
You know you're stuff, Fred. Excellent viewpoint.
Some of the Laws of Hammurabi sound exactly like sharia, no surprise, mohammad never had an original thought, he just added his women-hatred to whatever else he plagiarised. Sharia is nothing but the enshrinement of barbarism, laws from more than 3500 years ago.
Well, but consider: aren't a few lashes properly due to Dan Rather, for isn't he likewise corrupt? I'd say there might be something to it.
This is the kind of bullsqueeze you get in a theocracy.
Now, who wants to let the far-right Christians run the show here?
No there's nothing likewise about it. Rather used forged documents to spread a lie...this fellow is trying to tell the truth in Saudi Arabia...but you were joking, right?
But but but...you do have a Constitution, don't you?
Rather would've been beheaded with a dull blade. I'm totally serious.
Hokey smokes! A telescope? 275 lashes ain't enough for a heretic like this - he oughta be burnt at the stake along with this Copernicus fella, whoever he is...
Yep, he's lucky we progressed from the Code of Hammurabi!
There are times when I think with nostalgia of the good old days when punishment fitted the crime...his head in stocks, splattered with rotten vegetables would be nice, or tar and feathering...keelhauling? Or that charming practice of throwing them into a river, if they sank they were guilty, if they floated, they survived.
Rather would be feeding the fishes...he would have sunk like the proverbial stone.
Brno.
"...accused of being 'corrupt' by members of the Commission..."
Now Hitler would have said "crimes against the state!" - "guilty!"
What's the difference?
There is no difference.
Sure....
But we have already seen how easy it is to subvert the Constitution.
I have neighbors that would like to give me 275 lashes for dancing with my wife, or drinking a cold beer.
Sorry, need to correct the spelling. Bruno.
Giordano Bruno.
I live in Australia, don't envy you your neighbours one bit! Strange people, who are they?
Now now, as much as I would like to make an exeption for Rather, think of it, the next time you tell a little fib, it's your tongue that might come out! Or you might be wrongly accused and then no one can put it back. LOL!
I live in the southern US state of Georgia, which is part of the "Bible Belt".
My neighbors are known as: Fire-eating, foot-stomping, on-fire-for-Christ Southern Baptists.
Don't get me wrong; I am a Christian, but I am firmly in the belief that our government should be secular and tempered by moral imperatives.
When you let one groups religious principles override the rights of others, you have a theocracy. Just look at Europe during the Inquision.
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