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I'm an atheist, so I'm not trying to defend Christians as such, but what GOVERNMENT of any Christian country actually, TODAY, orders a prisoner raped simply because she's a virgin, before her execution?
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The inquisition was pretty infamous for it's sadism. To try to pin such such brutality on Islam seems a little...myopic to me. What the inquisition did was arguably much worse than rape.
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This barbarity is beyond belief in the modern, 21st century, in which we live.
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Yep. But you cant pin that on a religion. You can only pin that on the state which has those laws. It is unreasonable to draw the conclusion that all Muslims agree with that view just as it would be unreasonable to assume that all Christians share the views of the KKK.
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No offense, but YES, the main problem is Sharia (the Islamic texts) because if it did not say things like kill the infidels or kill apostates then the vast majority of the time a government would not kill someone for those "crimes".
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The Old Testament has pretty graphic depictions of punishments for various crimes as well, up to and including being burned alive. Read through Leviticus some time.
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If Saddam's regime was acting from a SECULAR point of view when they committed rape, it certainly wasn't for the reason to keep her from going to paradise, it was for OTHER (albeit disgusting) reasons.
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The specific reasons are irrelevant. The fact that Saddam's actions were not based on religion doesnt make them less of an abomination.
If anything, Saddam was worse, because his actions were not based on any ideology, but merely on his own sadistic pleasure.