'Down's syndrome girl', 11, faces death penalty

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

/// In July, thousands of people dragged a Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran from a police station in the central Pakistani city of Bahawalpur, beat him to death and then set his body on fire. ///

When are countries such as this and their people going to join us in the 21st century?

[joeluke]

'When are countries such as this and their people going to join us in the 21st century?'


Never

[jomifl]

They are joining us even now, as immigrants.

[Gromit]

Exactly.
No one has ever been killed Christians for their religous beliefs. Just shows how much better God is than Allah.

OK, there were a few Belgian Nuns who participated in Genocide but that was in fuzzywuzzyland so doesn't count.

[Sqad]

You quality of life depends on pure chance......who you parents are....wealth or lack of.....and more importantly which country and which religion one is born into.

Desecrating the Koran is a mortal sin in those Muslim countries and perpetrators of the law are severely dealt with and you know this from birth.

I wonder how may OAP's have been "bludgeoned" to death in robbery violation of our laws in the Western world?

[emmie]

more POV

http://www.theanswerb...0.html#answer-7202674

[emmie]

Sqad, if the young girl in question truly has down's syndrome, or is mentally impaired in some other way, how would she know.
As to the other matter Christians are not welcome there, or so it seems, a Priest said on the news, one man was dragged from his home, and set on fire, for being a Christian.

[ludwig]

// When are countries such as this and their people going to join us in the 21st century? //

Probably around mid 23rd century.

[emmie]

Ludwig, too late by then, some nutjob will have blown us all to who knows where by then.

[Sqad]

em....so many "ifs and buts" to this report. Was she a Down's Syndrome? Is she facing the death penalty? Will the charges be dropped?

[sp1814]

Yes - we're extremely lucky to live in a continent where six million Jews, gypsie and homosexuals were gassed to death in concentration cam...

...oh, hang on...

[sp1814]

But on a serious (as opposed to the 'bash the Muslims' narrative), I hope the exposure this story has generated inspires leaders to condemn Pakistan and save this girl.

There is a little confusion as to whether she actually HAS Downs Syndrome. On the news last night, it was reported that she had 'learning difficulties'. Still, no matter - I hope for her sake that this is taken into consideration.

[joeluke]

sp......^ so this justifies the story in the OP?

[emmie]

sp that was a madman who wanted to conquer the world, and if it hadn't been for the forces of much of Europe, combined with American, Canadian, Polish, Indian, and any i might left out he would have succeeded.
Pol pot, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Ghengis Khan, Julius Caesar, all had their day, killed millions, mostly their own people, and so it goes on.

[emmie]

sqad

http://articles.times...n-minorities-alliance

[joeluke]

em.....no despot in Pakistan though

[Sqad]

em...so which is better....the Times of India or the Daily Mail?

As I have said, the facts are far from clear.

[sp1814]

em10

How many Germans were members of the Nazi Party? How many sympathisers did they have outside Germany (including members of the royal family)?

I would strongly suggest that you cannot lay the atrocities of the second world war at the feet of one man. What about Italy's involvement? What about the actions on the Russian front?

Furthermore, Europe's history hasn't exactly been peachy ever since...

Thinking of the Balkan conflict in particular.

[sp1814]

joeluke

No - that response is in answer to the assumption that we have some kind of moral superiority in the West, which is debatable.

[joeluke]

sp......so this girl would face the death penalty over here for her 'crime'?

[emmie]

no one said we had moral superiority, we don't go about setting fire to people because they don't believe in a particular religion. That might have been the case once, that is religion for you, all the more reason to dump it in favour of more enlightened thinking. These people are still in the relative dark ages, time to go to the light.
As to Hitler, without him, his ideas, ideology and leadership, WW2 would not have happened. Had someone murdered him early on, then we would not have had a second global war. He was a figurehead, Chancellor, dictator, and driven by an urge to conquer, ring any bells.