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3. Is the US any different than the countries with Sharia law?

Wed May 17, 2017, 03:45 PM

May 2017

We deny visas to gay Russians. They may well die because they are forced to stay there. Sharia law says they are to be beaten in public. Not sure how we can pretend to claim any sort of moral superiority here.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/05/shariah-court-sentences-gay-lovers-public-caning/

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Is the US any different than the countries with Sharia law? davsand May 2017 #3

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