"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, May 24, 2014

FORMER MUSLIMS BECOME ATHEISTS

The New York Times ran an article about ex-Muslims who became atheists:
Anyone leaving a close-knit belief-based community risks parental disappointment, rejection by friends and relatives, and charges of self-loathing. The process can be especially difficult and isolating for women who have grown up Muslim, who are sometimes accused of trying to assimilate into a Western culture that despises them.

“It was incredibly painful,” Heina Dadabhoy, 26, said during a discussion called “Women Leaving Religion,” which also featured three former Christians and one formerly observant Jew, the novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. “My entire life, my identity, was being a good Muslim woman.”

Ms. Dadabhoy, a web developer who lives in Orange County, Calif., and who often gives talks about leaving Islam, said the hardest part of the process was opening up to her family.

“The sense they got was where I was turning my back on them,” Ms. Dadabhoy said. Her parents accused her of thinking that she was better than her grandparents and other ancestors. “You think what you have is better than what we have? You think you’re like those white people,” Ms. Dadabhoy recalled them saying.
Funny, she isn't white too? Hey, I'm well aware that I am! But I can figure what she means by "good Muslim woman". It means being obedient, subservient, and other such oppressive concepts.
There are few role models for former Muslims, and although the religion’s history contains some notable skeptics, very few of them are women. Today, Muslim feminists like Irshad Manji and Amina Wadud advocate more liberal attitudes toward women in Islam, but neither has left the faith. And many atheists resist identifying with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-American (by way of the Netherlands) whose vehement criticism of Islam is seen, even by many other atheists, as harsh.
I think this is where they turn dishonest. Please, do tell us about it. Even men aren't always open about being agnostics when faced with the threat of death for merely questioning Islam.

And Hirsi Ali's something of an atheist herself, thanks to the repellence of the religion she was once part of; no surprise that kind of stuff could turn anyone atheist, or just can't stand religion anymore.

They bring up Ex-Muslims of North America, and talk about a woman named Sadaf Ali, who said:
“As I started to investigate the religion, I realized I was talking to myself,” Ms. Ali said. “Nobody was listening to me. I had just entered the University of Toronto, and critical thinking was a big part of my studies. I have an art history and writing background, and I realized every verse I had come across” — in the Quran — “was explicitly or implicitly sexist.”

Quickly, her faith crumbled.

“So in 2009, I realized there probably is no God,” she said. “What is so wrong in having a boyfriend, or having premarital sex? What is wrong with wanting to eat and drink water before the sun goes down during Ramadan? What is so wrong with that? I couldn’t handle the cognitive dissonance anymore.”

For the next three years, Ms. Ali thought of herself as an agnostic. She stopped practicing Islam. She still had Muslim friends, and her brother married into a religious Muslim family. Slowly, younger friends and relatives figured things out. “They didn’t seem to care that I wasn’t Muslim,” Ms. Ali said. “But I didn’t go around telling my parents.”

Eventually, her parents heard.

“They were incredibly upset, as they believe in an eternal hell,” Ms. Ali said. “They are O.K. with me for the most part being irreligious,” she added. “But we don’t talk much about it anymore, and that’s fine.”
I hope they don't talk to each other anymore at all. Ms. Ali is much safer that way. Too bad that the NYT won't acknowledge any of the Koranic verses that offended her and many other realists, but at the same time, no surprise they won't get into it. Still, this is important stuff.

ANTI-SEMITIC SHOOTING IN BELGIUM

A terrorist attack took place at a Jewish museum in Brussels:
Belgian and EU politicians have reacted with shock and anger to the news that three people were shot dead and one seriously injured in a shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels.

The shooting happened just before 4pm local time in the EU capital both in and in front of the museum which lies off the popular Grand Sablon at the heart of the city.

Le Soir newspaper reports that a man driving an Audi stopped in front of the museum and got out of the car carrying a bag.

Two women and one man were killed. A fourth person, in a critical state, has been brought to a nearby hospital.

The perpetrator escaped in the car but Belgian newspapers reported early Saturday evening that a person had subsequently been arrested.

Philippe Markiewicz, president of the Israeli community in Brussels, said he was shocked by the attack.

He said the fact that the act took place in the Jewish museum meant it could be "an act against the Jewish community" but it is up to the authorities to draw conclusions.

Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League Against Antisemitism, said it was a "terrorist act".
Indeed it was, but note that this site doesn't mention who the perpetrators are, though we can guess there's every chance it was jihadists behind it. This is very terrible. Some European politicians have also condemned the crime, but there's one I have to take issue with here:
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said it was a "despicable attack" and "an affront against the values our modern Europe represents".
Wait a sec, he was the one who opposed recognition of the Armenian Holocaust a few years back. Why should we have to believe he's really sorry this tragedy happened if he's against recognizing another race's tragedy for the sake of politics too? Bildt isn't qualified to speak on issues like this one if he won't respect Armenia's history. He also supported the Goldstone report, and that doesn't speak well for his record either.

UCSB SHOOTER, ELLIOT RODGERS: PSYCHO SPEWING POSTMODERNIST CRAP

MY CONDOLENCES TO ALL THE VICTIMS OF THE SHOOTING AND THEIR FAMILIES.

IF WE ARE TO STOP HAVING THESE TYPES OF SHOOTINGS, THEN THE USA NEEDS TO DO A BETTER JOB IDENTIFYING AND TREATING PSYCHOPATHS AND SOCIOPATHS.

NOW...

IN HIS "RETRIBUTION VIDEO", RODGERS SAYS A LOT OF EVIL INSANE CRAP, AND MUCH OF IT IS PURE UNADULTERATED POSTMODERNIST CRAP.
  • LIKE WHEN HE ASSERTS THAT ALL POST-PUBESCENT 14-22 YEARS OLD SINGLE MALES MUST NOT BE MERE VIRGINS AND SHOULD BE HAVING LOTS OF SEX.
  • LIKE WHEN HE ASSERTS THAT HUMANITY AS A WHOLE IS BAD AND DESERVES ANNIHILATION.
THESE ARE TENETS OF THE POSTMODERN LEFT  -

WHICH SEES HUMANS AS MATERIAL, AS VEHICLES FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE...

AND HUMANITY AS A MENACE THAT HAS BASICALLY SCARRED WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE A PRISTINE AND PEACEFUL EARTH.

GRANTED: RODGERS HAS TAKEN THEM TO AN INSANE LEVEL - AND NO ONE IS TO BLAME BUT HIM...

BUT I CAN'T HELP WONDERING -

BASED ON THE CONTENT AND TONE OF THE VIDEO -

THAT IF INSTEAD OF A STEADY DIET OF POSTMODERNIST MORAL RELATIVISM AND THE HYPERSEXUALIZED CONTENT THAT DOMINATES THE MASS MEDIA,

RODGERS HAD INSTEAD RECEIVED TRADITIONAL MORAL TEACHINGS AND SERIOUS MEDICAL ATTENTION...

THAT HE MIGHT NOT HAVE DEVOLVED INTO A SCHIZO MURDERER WITH DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR AND NO SYMPATHY FOR OTHER HUMANS.

RODGERS CALLED THE TARGETS OF HIS INSANITY, MERE "ANIMALS" HE WILL SLAUGHTER.

SIGH.

WE SHALL NEVER KNOW.

WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT MORE "GUN CONTROL" IS NOT THE ANSWER.


Friday, May 23, 2014

CONGRESS WANTS US TO STOP TRADE WITH BRUNEI BECAUSE OF SHARIA IMPOSITIONS

Some lawmakers in Congress are being realists:
A group of lawmakers wants the United States to press Brunei to revoke Islamic criminal laws that they say jeopardize human rights under threat of being kicked out of Pacific free trade talks.

Brunei is phasing in Islamic laws that will impose fines or jail terms for offenses such as pregnancy outside marriage and failure to perform Friday prayers in the East Asian nation. The sharia laws will ultimately punish sodomy and adultery with the death penalty, including by stoning. [...]

Democratic Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin is circulating a draft letter on Capitol Hill that his office says 20 other lawmakers have pledged to sign, mainly other House Democrats. The letter will be open for signatures until mid-June.

"The United States must make it clear that we will not tolerate such abuses," says the draft, which was seen by Reuters. It is addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and says the United States should use its position as the world's largest economy to push against discrimination and abuses.

"(We) urge you to insist that Brunei address these human rights violations as a condition of the United States participating with them in any further Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations," the draft letter said.
Brunei will only address them if the Obama administration presses them to. For now, it's flattering that some Democrats actually care, presumably because there's Hollywooders who do.

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: (DRUDGE) Ex-Pentagon Spokesman: Al Qaeda terrorists at Gitmo treated better than veterans...




NEW ADFI ADS SHOW THE HITLER-HUSSEINI CONNECTION

Pamela Geller's movement finally succeeded in getting the DC Metro to carry her newest advertisements combatting Islamofascism, which use the picture of Hitler's meeting with Haj-Amin el-Husseini in the past century:
Geller wrote on her website that the campaign – which features an archival photograph of Hitler meeting with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Palestinian nationalist and Islamic leader of Mandate Palestine — are a response to “the vicious Jew-hating” ads placed on Washington buses in March and April by the Illinois-based group American Muslims for Palestine. Those ads stated, “We’re sweating April 15 so Israelis don’t have to! Stop US aid to Israel’s occupation!”

Geller told The Times of Israel by email that she never considered not responding to the American Muslims for Palestine ad. “When is it ever advantageous to let a lie stand unchallenged by the truth? The truth is always appropriate — now more than ever,” she wrote.

While most commuters will recognize Hitler, far fewer will be familiar with al-Husseini, who was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1948, and the president of the Supreme Muslim Council (1922-1937).

“[Al-Husseini] was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jewish women and children. He raised Muslim armies for Hitler in Bosnia,”
Geller wrote. “I hope the ad motivates people to research and learn more about the Mufti and this history of the Jews in Muslim lands. Only then will people begin to understand the root cause of the Islamic war against the Jews.”

[...] The activist wrote that she has received a great deal of support for the new ads, and that there has been no threat of legal action against her. “No. Why would there be?” she replied when asked about the possibility of a law suit. “My ad is factual, and the opposition knows that as well as I do.”
Geller's got a very good idea working on these ads, and is doing the right thing to fight back against that gang of scum in Illinois.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

HOSNI MUBARAK GETS 3 YEARS IN PRISON FOR EMBEZZLEMENT

The former Egyptian autocrat's gotten time in the slammer, and his sons got a year extra:
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds.

"The court orders Mohammed Hosni Mubarak to be sent to jail for three years," said judge Osama Shaheen as Mubarak looked on from a cage flanked by his sons, who were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges.

The funds were meant for renovating and maintaining presidential palaces but were instead spent on upgrading the family's private residences.

[...] The verdict may please some Egyptians who lived through three decades of autocracy under Mubarak, but analysts say that businessmen still loyal to him are still influential. Rights groups say that abusive practices of the Mubarak regime are alive and well as another former military man prepares to take the reins of power.
About Mubarak's own dictatorship, they're correct. No matter how awful Mohammed Morsi was, Mubarak was no better, and did much on his part to harm Egypt's economic status and foster a bigoted environment run by Islamofascism. That can't be overlooked.

BELFAST PASTOR NEXT UK RESIDENT TO BE PERSECUTED FOR CONDEMNING ISLAM

The next person in Britain to be subject to Orwellianism is James McConnell:
Police have launched a probe into a a potential hate crime after an outspoken evangelical pastor defended describing the Islamic faith as "satanic" and a "doctrine spawned in hell".

Senior Pastor James McConnell made the remarks as he addressed his congregation at the Whitewell Tabernacle Metropolitan Church on Sunday evening.

They were described as "very offensive", "hurtful" and "irresponsible" by a representative from the Belfast Islamic Centre.

There has also been an outcry on social media, with some calling for a police investigation into his comments.

One posted: "If this was a Muslim Imam speaking about Christianity, he would be arrested for inciting hatred."
What a laugh. It's already fact in Britain that a lot of Muslim hatemongers will otherwise be let off the hook, and penalties will be very lenient. They've been giving sanctuary to Anjem Choudhary for a long time now, so what do those people making unfounded claims expect to prove? The UK police should cease to harass the pastor immediately and respect his opinions, especially if he's researched the Koran.

GOOD NEWS MIGHT BE COMING FROM BRITAIN: UKIP LEADS THE POLLS!

One poll, by YouGov for The Sun, had UKIP tied with the opposition Labour party on 27 percent, placing Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party on 23 percent. When only those who were certain to vote were counted, YouGov said UKIP had a 5 percentage point lead. A second poll for The Daily Mirror by Survation also had UKIP tied with Labour, this time on 29 percent. But again, when it took into account likelihood to vote and awareness of the vote, it credited UKIP with a 5 percentage point lead.
I HAVE FOLLOWED THIS THE LAST FEW MONTHS, AND MY FEELING IS THAT THE BRITISH ELECTORATE ARE MORE FED UP WITH THE EU AND WITH THE TORIES AND LABOUR THAN ANYONE HAS YET REALIZED.

INSIDERS MIGHT SEE THIS HAPPENING - WHICH IS WHY THEY'VE GONE ON A VICIOUS ATTACK-OVERDRIVE AGAINST ANYTHING UKIP/FARAGE.

I EXPECT UKIP TO WIN IN A LANDSLIDE.

FINGER-CROSSED...

STAY TUNED...


Tuesday, May 20, 2014

HILLARY'S RUSSIAN RESET - HELPS RUSSIA AND HURTS THE FREE WORLD


UPDATE: Russia signs 30-year gas deal with China
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signed a multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China. The deal between Russia's Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years in the making. Russia has been keen to find an alternative energy market for its gas as it faces the possibility of European sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine. No official price has been given but it is estimated to be worth over $400bn.


4 NEWS ITEMS REVEAL UTTER INSANITY OF STATE RUN/SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE

NHS to give sex change drugs to nine-year-olds
INSANE! IMMORAL!
NHS managers received £166million in bonuses and other extras last year, it has been reported.
INSANE! CRIMINAL!
NHS faces ‘collapse’ if more is not done to tackle dementia challenge, warns minister
WELL OF COURSE THEY'RE GOING BROKE: THEY SPEND TOO MUCH ON BONUSES AND SEX CHANGES!!
Half of UK citizens say they do not trust NHS with personal data
HALF OF UK CITIZENS ARE WISE.

LOOKIT FOLKS:

THE BRITS INVENTED SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE.

AND THE BRITS ARE FAMOUS FOR THEIR BRILLIANCE AT RUNNING BUREAUCRACIES.

IF THE CAN'T MAKE IT WORK, THEN NOBODY CAN!

MORE HERE + VIDEO!

11 UGLY LEFTIST SENATE BEYOTCHES WITH A NEW HASHTAG


YOU KNOW, PALIN IS HOTTER, SMARTER AND HAS BETTER AIM THAN ANY ONE OF THESE GALS OR ALL OF 'EM TOGETHER!

HERE'S ANOTHER GOOD ONE:



IT'S HIGH TIME THE VICTIMS AT FORT HOOD GOT THEIR PURPLE HEARTS

KXXV-TV reports that more efforts are underway to get genuine recognition for the victims of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood:
Congressmen John Carter (R-TX 31) and Bill Flores (R-TX 17) and LTC Allen West, who is contemplating a run for President in 2016, hosted a press conference Monday morning on Ft. Hood to continue their push to designate the Nidal Hasan attack on post as a terror attack.

The Obama Administration continues to classify the shootings as workplace violence, denying victims and their families Purple Heart medals and additional medical and financial benefits.

Carter and Congressman Roger Williams introduced the Fort Hood Heroes Act (H.R. 3111) to ensure the victims of the tragic Nov. 5, 2009 terrorist attack on Fort Hood receive those due benefits and awards. Most recently, language was introduced into the House’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would make that happen.

“Since day one, when Nidal Hasan screamed out ‘Allah Akbar’ while attacking our soldiers we knew the shooting was an act of terror,” said Congressman Carter, representative of Fort Hood and co-chair of the House Army Caucus.

“Since that day the Obama Administration has been hiding behind political correctness and four and a half years later they still can’t face the truth. This was an act of terror, plain and simple. The victims and families of this attack deserve recognition from their government and a chance to finally move on with their lives. I urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to quickly pass the NDAA to finally give the victims and families the restitution they deserve,” he added.
Will the Obama administration simply cooperate for a change and award the victims their purple hearts finally? They're not helping by holding out, and by continuing to do so, it only worsens the pain.

MUSLIM PROFESSORS IN AMERICA JUSTIFY DEATH FOR APOSTASY

Andrew Bostom wrote about the horror an apostate in Sudan is facing, and also points to some Muslim professors in the USA who've justified violence against apostates.

TOM BREVOORT DOWNPLAYS THE ATROCITIES OF THE SANDANISTAS

The Marvel editor who decidedly never deserved his position to start with keeps on with his disastrous defenses for Islam, getting to the point where he's making really flaccid defenses. First, he tried to say that terrorism isn't entirely the fault of Muslims, even though nobody's ever said terrorism was solely Islam's fault; it's just that in the past few decades, it's been the only serious ideology spawning terrorism. Then, he screws up further by writing a post defending the Sandanistas (and this is after he named them as a terrorist group), and reveals a lot more of his leftist side, wherein he also attacks Ronald Reagan:
Regarding the inclusion of the Sandinistas on the list of terrorist groups, the historical record suggests otherwise. The Sandinistas were no angels, but they were not terrorists. To choose just one example, according to the LOS ANGELES TIMES in 1985 “The most detailed report, issued Thursday by the International Human Rights Law Group, was based on 145 sworn statements from Nicaraguans who said they had witnessed 28 incidents of misconduct by the contras. ‘The documentation shows a pattern of brutality against largely unarmed civilians, including rape, torture, kidnapings, mutilation and other abuses,’ the group said. Earlier, Americas Watch, another private human rights group, said that both the contras and the Sandinistas have violated the laws of war in their conflict but added that the government has reduced its abuses while reports of contra violence against civilians continue to accumulate.”

I am not an apologist for the crimes of the Sandinistas, but they pale in comparison to the atrocities conducted by the contras. This is why Congress cut off the contras, thus leading Reagan to fund them with profits from weapons sold to Iran.

I know this conversation is supposed to be about comics, and I totally agree with your refutation of anti-Islamic prejudice, but this is an important bit of history.
I assume some of this was written in response to messages he either didn't post directly, or was answering on Twitter, but regardless of that, he's gone overboard into apologies for communist tyrants, and relies on one of the worst papers to fortify his defenses. He says he's not an apologist, but if he relies on distorted propaganda and makes the Contras out to look like the real baddies, then he is. Here's an article from The American Spectator that gives better info about the Sandanistas and the Contras:
When the New York Times revealed that New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio had been an enthusiastic supporter of Nicaragua’s communist Sandinista regime, old arguments from the 1980s were suddenly rekindled, with renewed debate over the nature of that regime. The left once again emerged from the woodwork to insist that the Sandinistas were never bad guys (or even communists) — quite the contrary. The Times quickly published letters-to-the-editor whitewashing the Sandinistas’ tyranny, and one Times’ blogger went so far as to publish a post declaring: “Whatever their failings, the Sandinistas did not impose a repressive regime on their impoverished Central American nation. There was no mass jailing of opponents nor mass execution of opposing soldiers.”

Gee, that’s good — assuming that it’s even true. Of course, it isn’t true.

To cite just once source, the Russian-born scholar, Dr. Jamie Glazov, who came to America as a child when the KGB forced him and his pro-democracy, dissident parents into exile, is among those who beg to differ. Glazov wrote:

The Sandinistas quickly distinguished themselves as one of the worst human rights abusers in Latin America, carrying out approximately 8,000 political executions within three years of the revolution. The number of "anti-revolutionary" Nicaraguans who disappeared while in Sandinista hands numbered in the thousands. By 1983, the number of political prisoners inside the new Marxist regime’s jails was estimated at 20,000. This was the highest number of political prisoners in any nation in the hemisphere — except, of course, in Castro’s Cuba. By 1986, a vicious and violent Sandinista “resettlement program” forced some 200,000 Nicaraguans into 145 “settlements” throughout the country. This monstrous social engineering program entailed the designation of “free-fire” zones in which Sandinista government troops shot and killed any peasant of their choosing.
Glazov has more on the subject here. So, just what is Brevoort trying to prove by apologizing for those south American marxists? He has effectively parroted the same lines as the NYT, LAT and their ilk. The Sandanistas were even guilty of anti-semitic persecution, and he has the gall to whitewash that too? It doesn't take a genius to guess Brevoort's not a fan of Stan Lee and Marvel's Silver Age stories that condemned communism. I was recently reading a Masterworks compilation of the early Thor tales (from Journey Into Mystery #83-100), and the second one has the God of Thunder helping a group of doctors stuck in a Latin American country being menaced by "the Executioner", a metaphor for savages like Che Guevara. Why did Brevoort ever want to get a job with a company built up by a guy who'd taken a critical eye against communism? What does he even think of Lee, for that matter?

Then, to address his abrupt damning of Reagan, AWR Hawkins at Breitbart gives some history of the Iran-Contra case, and says:
Then, in late 1986, everything came to light and what we all know now as the “Iran/Contra scandal” was underway. It would result in an independent prosecutor, Lawrence E. Walsh, charging 14 members of the Reagan administration, 11 of whom were convicted: included in these 11 were “employees of the National Security Council staff, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Reagan was not found guilty, as there was not sufficient evidence that he knew about the sales or the subsequent monies that were sent to the Contras. (There definitely weren’t any speeches wherein he boasted of overseeing the program, as there are with Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder and Operation “Gun Runner.”)
How come Brevoort also chose to damn Reagan without researching to see what the outcome of the investigation was? And while the sale of arms to Iran may not have been right, why didn't Brevoort at least mention that the people involved were trying to rescue an American named Benjamin Weir, along with several others, from Iran's chambers of horror? Obviously, his leftism and meaningless dislike for Reagan got the better of him.

With those recent posts, Brevoort has sunk deep into leftist apologetics, and proven he's not good at making political arguments. Nor is he any good at making comics history arguments, and I'd wouldn't recommend anybody interested in historical research look to him for answers. In fact, it remains to be seen how much longer he'll even bother to answer the queries of passersby on Tumblr, because all he's done now is prove how awful he is addressing many serious issues.

Monday, May 19, 2014

TWO LETHARGIC TWEETS BY GAIL SIMONE

Simone's leftist side is coming round again. For example:

Sure she feels bad for them. And I suppose she thinks the liberals are better in this regard?

Then, she acts as cheerleader for something that you'd think goes against some of her beliefs, the Muslim Ms. Marvel series:

Recalling how obsessed she's become with shoving homosexuality into some of her recent output like The Movement, I wonder why she's promoting a book centered around a religion that abhors homosexuality. One can only wonder if she even cares that Brunei has approved sharia tactics like the stoning of gays and lesbians. Maybe she doesn't have enough faith in what she says she favors?

Sunday, May 18, 2014

HERE'S THE REAL REASON WHY HILLARY WON'T RELEASE HER MEDICAL RECORDS

BECAUSE SHE NEVER HAD AN ANEURYSM.

THE WHOLE THING WAS MADE UP SO SHE COULD AVOID TESTIFYING ABOUT BENGHAZI UNTIL AN IRON-CLAD COVER-UP STORY - IN WHICH HER MALFEASANCE WAS OVERLOOKED -WAS HATCHED.

WELL, THERE IS ONE WAY TO DISPROVE THIS...

HEH...


It Is The "Crime", Not The Punishment, That Makes Sharia Evil

People usually focus on the barbarity of the punishment. And it is horrific.

But it is the "crime" the punishment is for that is the real problem.

Women get stoned to death for being the victim of rape.

Women and men get stoned to death for "apostasy", which means leaving Islam.

The Sudanese woman, currently in the news, is being stoned to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.

Such punishment for the "Crime" of Apostasy means there is no freedom of Speech/Conscience in Islam.

Why is this woman's story even in the news? It is not at all unusual for this to happen.

So why this story now?

That so much attention is being focused on the story of this one Sudanese woman, while a real tragedy, serves to belittle the hundreds and thousands of Christians and Jews, and people of other religions, who are murdered by Muslims for such "apostasy".

Islam is evil. Sharia, the law code of Islam, is evil. And, let's be clear, the punishments are often barbaric. Some crimes are punished by dismemberment. Some crimes are punished by stoning the criminal to death.

And yes, this is barbarity.

But barbarity, while disgusting and horrific is a form of spectacle.

We must not allow our attention to be diverted by the spectacle of Sharia, while something much more fundamental is being stolen from us.

The "Crime" of "Apostasy", as defined by Sharia Law is not a crime. It is the Free Expression of Human Thought.

Islam defines Freedom of Thought, Speech, and Expression as the worst "Crime", and it is therefore punishable by death.

THAT'S THE REAL PROBLEM.