Religion of Peace
This young man's crime was to convert to Christianity.
For that his head is sawed off in the name of Allah, and the video distributed.
This is from Tunisia, which NPR featured rather favorably this morning in Steve Inskeep's "Arab Spring" series. In his report, Steve didn't mention anything like this as far as I can recall. Not sufficiently Spring-like, I guess.
Some things, once seen, can't be unseen, so you might want to skip this one. Or not watch past the 2:20 mark.
Then again, this is Islam as practiced, after all, and not an aspect they seem much interested in hiding; so I suppose you might consider it a necessary test of your multi-cultural bona fides, your commitment to respecting the cultural practices of others.
Of course, on Islam's part political correctness means specifically NOT respecting non-Islamic cultural practices -- which is how this man came to be butchered on video.
Such a conundrum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sxGWlOQZyEs
For that his head is sawed off in the name of Allah, and the video distributed.
This is from Tunisia, which NPR featured rather favorably this morning in Steve Inskeep's "Arab Spring" series. In his report, Steve didn't mention anything like this as far as I can recall. Not sufficiently Spring-like, I guess.
Some things, once seen, can't be unseen, so you might want to skip this one. Or not watch past the 2:20 mark.
Then again, this is Islam as practiced, after all, and not an aspect they seem much interested in hiding; so I suppose you might consider it a necessary test of your multi-cultural bona fides, your commitment to respecting the cultural practices of others.
Of course, on Islam's part political correctness means specifically NOT respecting non-Islamic cultural practices -- which is how this man came to be butchered on video.
Such a conundrum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sxGWlOQZyEs
posted by Byron | Monday, June 04, 2012
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