Islamic Law = Some Sick Sad Shit
Now I’m not trying to attack Muslims, but something needs to be said about the ridiculous hypocrisies going on in their little fruitcake world over there.
If you are like me, you try your best to pay attention to whats going on in the world. Granted I don’t really understand the Muslim religion, but then again I went to Sunday School for something like 6 years and I didn’t pick up too much insider information about Catholicism either. What I do know about the Muslim religion is mainly what I’ve learned through the media in recent years, and to be fair it is the fundamentalists who tend to be getting the most attention (which is a distinction a lot of out-spoken critics of Islam fail to make) - but regardless of that, this shit going on in Afghanistan (which I was under the impression the U.S. was controlling under the guise of a shadow-government-puppet regime) is -in a word - unfuckingbelievable.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060324/ts_nm/religion_afghan_dc
My main man Abdur Rahman is about to go on trial for converting to Christianity and if convicted, faces the death penalty. Now I’m not a missionary and I don’t advocate anyone converting to any religion, unless it is to give their semi-senile mind some peace as they live out their last years in a hospital bed. But to actually have a law that states if one isn’t Muslim "Death is the punishment stipulated by sharia, or Islamic law, for apostasy. The Afghan legal system is based on a mix of civil and sharia law." is a little fucking extreme for my tastes.
And I know that there are differences in between Muslim sects (word to civil war in Iraq), but isn’t this the same religion whose followers were taking to the streets and chanting "kill Denmark" because someone drew a picture of their Prophet that they didn’t like?
I’m not a proponent of "kill ‘em all" -which is a view a lot of close-minded Americans take on the middle east, but all I’m saying is that some people are beyond saving, basically have little value as people and should be ignored. I’ll repeat that for emphasis -all I’m saying is that some people are beyond saving, basically have little value as people and should be ignored. And if you want to let some lunatic Cleric speak for you, well then you fall under that category.
Our fearless leader chimed in with this statement "The United States wants Afghanistan to show that it respects religious freedom and quickly resolve the case."
Now, I’m no theologist, but I would say if there is a law on the books that punishes conversion to any religion other than Islam by death, chances are pretty good that Afghanistan doesn’t respect religious freedom and furthermore, they aren’t even fronting as if they are tolerant. But then again, your boy Bush was never one to correctly assess a situation.
I would just like to point out, like most of the problems in the history of the world, there is a woman scorned at the center of this nonsense as well…"He (Abdur Rahman) was detained after his family informed authorities he had converted, apparently following a family dispute involving two daughters, a judicial official said."
In the words of Bette Middler (authors note, at some point in my childhood, I sung this with my elementary school at the UN):
From a distance the world looks blue and green,
And the snow-capped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
And the eagle takes to flight
From a distance, there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land
It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace,
It’s the voice of every man
From a distance we all have enough,
And no one is in need
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease,
No hungry mouths to feed
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace
They’re the songs of every man
God is watching us, God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
From a distance you look like my friend,
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
what all this fighting is for
From a distance there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land
And it’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves,
it’s the heart of every man
It’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves
This is the song of every man
And God is watching us, God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching
God is watching us from a distance
