(Sweden) Court slashes sentence in 'honour killing' case (from 8 yrs to 4)

[sabrina 1]

66. Our 'Christian Culture' is not much different to that of other fundie cultures. We, eg, are the only

so-called 'better, civilized' nation that believes in the old Biblical 'eye for an eye' revenge theory by allowing the State to kill, rather than an individual. A medieval concept which serves no purpose other than to exact revenge, and worse, we kill mostly the poor and minorities who cannot afford a defense. Many OTHER cultures view our 'justice' system as barbaric.

Then we have collected the biggest arsenal of deadly weapons in the history of the world AND we use them. We go around the world killing innocent people pretending it is for our 'national security'. Right here on this forum you will see people defending the killing of CHILDREN claiming we 'didn't mean to do it', as if we HAD to, and referring to those innocent people by the dehumanizing phrase 'collateral damage'. We claim that we are so much more important than human beings anywhere else in the world, that all we have to do in order to justify killing hundreds of thousands of them, is to claim to be afraid that someone is going to harm us.

Then we torture people and we actually have people, a whole LOT of people in this country who believe it is okay to torture human beings. AND we protect our torturers from prosecution.

With these beliefs you might expect that we would not be welcome in other countries, dragging these medieval concepts which we have proven our willingness to carry out, with us.

We are hardly in any position to criticize anyone's culture.

As to this decision re the honor killing, I abhor killing of all kinds especially when people are driven by 'patriotism' or 'religion' to do so.

But when we start punishing our Christian War Mongers and Torturers then we might have a right to point fingers elsewhere.