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Posted by mryfranre | Tue, October 16, 2007, 9:20 pm PDT

I love all the birds

Posted by d3ruberjerk | Mon, October 29, 2007, 6:57 am PDT

dlbnfla,

I followed the link you quoted and could not find exactly where it all came from, so if you have a moment, direct links would be extraordinarily helpful. As far as the laws, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were tortured and killed for suspicion of being witches by the Christian church. To top it off, there was no religious tolerance as far as the Catholic orthodox was concerned, they simply killed, converted or banished anyone who was not Catholic or some other group of Christian, and even those were kept a close eye on. And... don't even get me started on the Slavery and forced immigration of thousands upon thousands of Black people (by Christians), many of whom died en route. This however, does not condone the actions of those countries above... simply, do not presume that it is only Islam with laws of this sort.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_inquisition)

The countries you have listed, quite often are nowhere near as 'developed' as you would like to think and in many cases still support many, many archaic laws which have not been revised by a constitution similar to that of America's. As such, it is unrealistic to take those laws you have listed and treat them with much seriousness because they just do not have the same concept of Human rights you obviously do.

PS. The State Department is not really a good place to be gathering information on Islam as they have their own agenda for putting up information such as what you have posted. Perhaps you should, talk to a living breathing Muslim in your neighborhood and see what they have to say? We really aren't very different from yourself.

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