<sm911S...@hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: >Ace wrote: >> But yes, I consider that Sharia law as practised in some Muslim >> countries is uncivilised. Barbaric, even. You two wanted to elope >> together? Bang bang, you're dead. You were raped by a neighbour? >> Clearly you provoked it, so you will be publically whipped. Refuse to >> grow a beard? That's a whipping. Show your face in public? That's a >> whipping. Beat your wife? No problem sir, but do it more often.
>> Etc.
>Well that's the problem with Sharia. It has good bits, and bad bits.
Remind me of the good bits, would you? I'm not that familiar with it/them.
Ace wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:18:19 -0000, "'Hog" > <sm911S...@hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>> Ace wrote:
>>> But yes, I consider that Sharia law as practised in some Muslim >>> countries is uncivilised. Barbaric, even. You two wanted to elope >>> together? Bang bang, you're dead. You were raped by a neighbour? >>> Clearly you provoked it, so you will be publically whipped. Refuse >>> to grow a beard? That's a whipping. Show your face in public? >>> That's a whipping. Beat your wife? No problem sir, but do it more >>> often.
>>> Etc.
>> Well that's the problem with Sharia. It has good bits, and bad bits.
> Remind me of the good bits, would you? I'm not that familiar with > it/them.
I know you don't really want an answer but....you listed one yourself ;o)
Plus they have the hands off folk that habitually thieve.
>>"Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery >>but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
>>Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 >>people in the port town of Merka.
>>An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed >>after she has had her baby."
>>Fuck.
>>Just... Fuck.
>You can't really be terribly surprised about the above?
I guess not. Every now and again something just rams it down my throat.
>And to think that we're bombing the living daylights out of Afghanistan >when all the good money is on the fact that Al Qaeda have buggered off >to Somalia and are not terribly far off from taking over the place. Are >we going to send our troops to their deaths to protect the people of >Somalia .. oh sorry protect ourselves from the threat of terrorist >attacks? I really don't think so.
>Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about Afghanistan. Get >the soldiers out please.
Actually, when I read this stuff, I lean more and more towards the "Take off and nuke the site from orbit" school of 'thought'.
An attempt to cauterise the wound before the infection spreads.
Too late, of course.
-- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"
Paul Corfield wrote: > Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about Afghanistan. > Get the soldiers out please.
I know you don't find women particularly useful but spend a few moments reviewing what happened to the fairer sex in Afghanistan under the Taliban and assume if we FRO so it will regress.
We can't save everyone but at least we are doing *something*
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:07:04 -0000, 'Hog squeezed out the following:
>Paul Corfield wrote: >> Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about Afghanistan. >> Get the soldiers out please.
>I know you don't find women particularly useful but spend a few moments >reviewing what happened to the fairer sex in Afghanistan under the Taliban >and assume if we FRO so it will regress.
Perhaps we'll join the USA and head for Iran - where women get arguably the best deal in the neighbourhood.
<sm911S...@hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: >Paul Corfield wrote: >> Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about Afghanistan. >> Get the soldiers out please.
>I know you don't find women particularly useful but spend a few moments >reviewing what happened to the fairer sex in Afghanistan under the Taliban >and assume if we FRO so it will regress.
>We can't save everyone but at least we are doing *something*
There are only two reasons why any Western forces are still in Afghanistan: oil and gas.
In communiqué <3c7df55p9ikg2cfhut5r1br3n3b85gu...@4ax.com>, Andy Bonwick <nos...@bonwick.me.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:07:04 -0000, "'Hog" ><sm911S...@hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>>Paul Corfield wrote: >>> Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about Afghanistan. >>> Get the soldiers out please.
>>I know you don't find women particularly useful but spend a few moments >>reviewing what happened to the fairer sex in Afghanistan under the Taliban >>and assume if we FRO so it will regress.
>>We can't save everyone but at least we are doing *something*
>There are only two reasons why any Western forces are still in >Afghanistan: oil and gas.
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Pete Fisher wrote: > In communiqué <3c7df55p9ikg2cfhut5r1br3n3b85gu...@4ax.com>, Andy > Bonwick <nos...@bonwick.me.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:07:04 -0000, "'Hog" >> <sm911S...@hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Paul Corfield wrote: >>>> Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about >>>> Afghanistan. Get the soldiers out please.
>>> I know you don't find women particularly useful but spend a few >>> moments reviewing what happened to the fairer sex in Afghanistan >>> under the Taliban and assume if we FRO so it will regress.
>>> We can't save everyone but at least we are doing *something*
>> There are only two reasons why any Western forces are still in >> Afghanistan: oil and gas.
Good lord I'm less of a sceptic than either of you!
Cab <my_email_address_is_in_my_...@privacy.net> wrote: > Yeah right. Let's keep the empire, what ho?
Bit late now.....
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>> vulgarandmischevious wrote: >>> Colin Irvine <l...@bottom.of.home.page> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:52:49 +0000, boots squeezed out the >>>> following:
>>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:43:05 +0000 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Wicked >>>>> Uncle Nigel says:
>>>>>> Actually, when I read this stuff, I lean more and more >>>>>> towards the "Take off and nuke the site from orbit" school of >>>>>> 'thought'.
>>>>> May as well at least that way we get some use out of the >>>>> overpriced weapons. Lets just do the whole of the middle east >>>>> at the same time.
>>>> I say leave the middle east alone and nuke the USA. They're the >>>> ones who started it.
>>> The UK should nuke itself, then; having drawn up most of the borders >>> in the modern day Middle East.
>> We should have kept the lot after WWII
> Yeah right. Let's keep the empire, what ho?
Good god no. People, nowt but trouble. I meant the oil.
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