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Originally Posted by finnbow
Any notion that we're going to deliver democracy to such countries/cultures at the barrel of a gun is delusional. They need to pull themselves out of the Dark Ages before they're ready for democracy. The trouble is that many of them seem to think remaining in the Dark Ages is the right course for their countries.
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merrylander
The irony is that those savages call it "Honour" killing when they do not even have a faint clue what the word means. A father, or mother, who can murder their own child is beneath contempt and should simply be executed as painlessly as possible. Kepping them in jail simply wastes food that could be better served to those in need.
No argument there except from my wife merrylander. She thinks the word painlessly could be left out.
Most European countries went through their own Dark Ages; the difference was that no-one could show us a better way. Now there's knowledge for all to use, and abuse. I doubt that you right to freedom of speech was intended to make it as difficult to get a religious lunatic off the airwaves as it is to get a limpet off a rock.
We're hardly a generation away from hanging a black man from a tree for looking at a white woman, or beating "to their severe injury" anyone even suspected of being gay. Not 20 years ago male and female adults lined the road to spit at children going to school. Where? Not Somalia, not Pakistan, not Saudi Arabia. Protestant men and women screaming and spiting from the side of the road at Catholic children on their way to a nondenominational primary school. In Belfast.
Meanwhile someone with all the tolerance and open mindedness of an English 19th century Evangelical preacher is within his own spitting distance from the White House.