I'm so glad that only a minority think like you.
Sudanese woman whipped in the street for wearing trousers
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Different countries have different moral standards.
In England it was still illegal to have gay sex only ~50 years ago.
Sharia law... what did you expect?
A backward country such as sudan has to maintain control over its population to keep order, sharia law is a handy way to do this. It pretty much allows the "police" to arrest anyone they like after making up some suitable, unprovable, allegation such as seen here. The general population is kept in constant fear of arrest and there is no shortage of thugs signing up to be the police.
Its just a police state under a banner of religion. Much the same as Iran at the moment.
A backward country such as sudan has to maintain control over its population to keep order, sharia law is a handy way to do this. It pretty much allows the "police" to arrest anyone they like after making up some suitable, unprovable, allegation such as seen here. The general population is kept in constant fear of arrest and there is no shortage of thugs signing up to be the police.
Its just a police state under a banner of religion. Much the same as Iran at the moment.
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Because they're backwards and inferior to us.
I know its not PC to say so and we're supposed to assume that all cultures are equal and just 'different' but the reality is that an Islamic hell hole like Sudan is vastly inferior to a Western Democracy. We're also not perfect but at least have a system that is much better than that.
I don't agree with the notion that we should let them get on with it simply because they're a sovereign nation. We could have taken that view with Yugoslavia in the 90s but didn't, we did however turn a blind eye to Rwanda.
I think the idea of a state having complete sovereignty should be thrown out when it isn't a democracy with fair and free elections - quite frankly we should be putting pressure on the likes of Sudan.
Maybe if they put as much effort into making sure the people in the country are not dying from starvation and people going around acting out genocide.
A country like that will always be in poverty.
Sod the hunger problem she is wearing trousers let put man power into wiping here, backwards race.
A country like that will always be in poverty.
Sod the hunger problem she is wearing trousers let put man power into wiping here, backwards race.
Again, we have only have had free and fair elections in the last 100 years. Prior to the 1900s there were virtually no rights, huge amounts of child labour, education only for the rich, no rights of women to vote...
That's not to say that other countries should be free from all criticism, but it's a bit unfair to complete slam a culture when ours has only changed very recently.
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I couldn't even begin to justify it.
Why is it unfair to point out the truth - that they are backwards and inferior to us? 100 years isnt that recent tbh... and if you're trying to say they're like us 100 or so years ago then tbh.. that only supports the statement that they're backwards compared to us.
The thing is, we're out of it and they're not. Therefore I think we can criticise all we like.
Can a reformed and rehabilitated 'former' criminal not criticise criminals? Same thing.
I love how everyone is quoting my reply completely out of the context of the quoted text I was actually replying to... Why do you think I left out the majority of the post people?
Of course I don't agree with the punishment, but hey, that's good old religion for you.
Of course I don't agree with the punishment, but hey, that's good old religion for you.
I think sometimes we have to accept that this kind of thing happens- as evil as it is. You can't change a society, you can destroy armies or overthrow leaders but if the whole country feels this way then there is nothing we can do to stop it short of rounding 90% of the population. Same kind of thing with communist countries, the leaders get the population to buy it and suddenly the entire population of the country is now your enemy.
Take Vietnam, the leaders convinced the population that the west were the enemies etc. When the Americans go in to protect the democratic side of Vietnam they find that most of the civilians on the communist side were against them, so what could they do? Most of these people would have happily have shot them in the back after they walk away, but what could they do about that?
Take Vietnam, the leaders convinced the population that the west were the enemies etc. When the Americans go in to protect the democratic side of Vietnam they find that most of the civilians on the communist side were against them, so what could they do? Most of these people would have happily have shot them in the back after they walk away, but what could they do about that?
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Well what are you views on Pakistan, where some Christians are currently on trial for blasphemy for practicing Christianity?
Properly on trial, and may face stoning. In Pakistan, the country we gave millions of pound of flood aid to earlier this year.
'Their country, their laws' apply there also?
These countries are signed up to the Geneva convoentions and the world human rights UN gubbins, if they've signed it, it should be practiced, so I think their own laws need to looked at under international eyes once in a while.
Maybe he was in a walk in freezer at the time the picture was taken.It wasn't quite as big as his IQ was it!
