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Dubai, UAE-- Raif Badawi, 31, is a father of three and has been given a jail sentence of seven years and 600 lashes for "insulting Islam." He had been publicly flogged for his crime against the religion of peace.
How anyone can insult an ideology is beyond understanding. Ideologies have no emotions and an insult is something that negatively impacts upon emotions.
According to Dictionary.com emotion is defined as:
Noun. An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like is experienced.
Ideologies have no affective state of consciousness. Ideas do not feel anything such as sorrow, fear, hate, or the like. Islam is a belief system which can be questioned and examined, like any idea or belief can be scrutinized.
But Islam protects itself against all scrutiny by demanding that believers do not question it. In fact, questioning Islam, even for Muslims, can be punished by death, and at the very least, by incarceration.
Badawi has been in prison since 2012 for blogging about Islam and in January, the Saudi Supreme Court's decision to uphold his sentence was upheld and cannot be overturned. He was flogged outside a mosque in Jiddah at that time.
Saudi rights activists (an oxymoron if there ever was one) said the flogging was a warning to others not to criticize Islam, which is how the ruling authority of Saudi Arabia gets its authority.
The blog broke Saudi Arabia's technology laws and insulted Islamic religious figures. Badawi appealed the verdict in Jiddah last year but the punishment was then increased to 10 year in prison and 1000 lashes. He also would not be allowed to travel 10 years after his release from prison and be fined $266,000.
Badawi was to get 20 weekly sessions of barbaric lashings in public, with 50 lashes per week (the bastards did the math).Amnesty International launched a global campaign to call for Badawi's release, but alas, no luck, and he is still at risk for more lashes.
Blame it on Sharia law, blame it on Islam. "It's just 'Islamic business,' nothing personal."
Saudi Western allies, including the Obama administration, have asked Saudi authorities to rescind the punishment but the very same kingdom Obama bowed down to has rejected the pressure, calling it interference in the kingdom's internal affairs.
Is anyone surprised that the king of Saudi Arabia refuses to bow down to Obama?
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How anyone can insult an ideology is beyond understanding. Ideologies have no emotions and an insult is something that negatively impacts upon emotions.
According to Dictionary.com emotion is defined as:
Noun. An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like is experienced.
Ideologies have no affective state of consciousness. Ideas do not feel anything such as sorrow, fear, hate, or the like. Islam is a belief system which can be questioned and examined, like any idea or belief can be scrutinized.
But Islam protects itself against all scrutiny by demanding that believers do not question it. In fact, questioning Islam, even for Muslims, can be punished by death, and at the very least, by incarceration.
Badawi has been in prison since 2012 for blogging about Islam and in January, the Saudi Supreme Court's decision to uphold his sentence was upheld and cannot be overturned. He was flogged outside a mosque in Jiddah at that time.
Saudi rights activists (an oxymoron if there ever was one) said the flogging was a warning to others not to criticize Islam, which is how the ruling authority of Saudi Arabia gets its authority.
The blog broke Saudi Arabia's technology laws and insulted Islamic religious figures. Badawi appealed the verdict in Jiddah last year but the punishment was then increased to 10 year in prison and 1000 lashes. He also would not be allowed to travel 10 years after his release from prison and be fined $266,000.
Badawi was to get 20 weekly sessions of barbaric lashings in public, with 50 lashes per week (the bastards did the math).Amnesty International launched a global campaign to call for Badawi's release, but alas, no luck, and he is still at risk for more lashes.
Blame it on Sharia law, blame it on Islam. "It's just 'Islamic business,' nothing personal."Saudi Western allies, including the Obama administration, have asked Saudi authorities to rescind the punishment but the very same kingdom Obama bowed down to has rejected the pressure, calling it interference in the kingdom's internal affairs.
Is anyone surprised that the king of Saudi Arabia refuses to bow down to Obama?
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