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In reply to the discussion: Dad lets daughter drown in Dubai so she's not 'dishonored' by male lifeguards' touch [View all]whatthehey
(3,660 posts)Whenever you see a child with a simple infection or other curable medical condition left to die in agony because the parents chose prayer as a healing method instead of hospitals, you can be sure it's Christianity at work. Same with (mostly) African killings of gays. Honor killings like this, you can be sure it's Islam (there are a few exceptions like Faten Habash, who was beaten to death by her own Christian father for dating a Muslim. However that's an individual rather than societal moral agency - he was neither expected to do so by fellow Christians in Palestine or generally supported, in fact his own tribe promised retaliation and he was arrested for murder). Modesty patrols in Israel along with traditional assaults by stoning are obviously Jewish in origin.
Only a blithering idiot or one paralyzed by fear of offending against absolute moral relativism would say that Islam is not the worst global offender right now, but that doesn't mean we should try to exculpate the other theocratic lunacies.