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Igel

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4. Mostly poor.

Reply to sulphurdunn (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 07:09 PM

Aug 2012

Even if educated, their parents weren't.

As for their statement, you should read what previous statements with the same language meant. "Justice" doesn't mean that they assume the girl's telling the truth. Punishing false witnesses doesn't mean that they want to punish her accusers.

It's difficult to read something without your own cultural filters pre-determining what the content must be.

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Pakistani Muslim leaders support Christian girl accused of blasphemy [View all] alp227 Aug 2012 OP

Wonderful news....n/t whathehell Aug 2012 #1

Good news. Would like fewer "baying mobs" wishing to impose similar fundamentalism in the US. nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #2

Oh please...Show me the "mobs" trying to arrest learning disabled 11 year olds for "blasphemy" whathehell Aug 2012 #5

You misread and read too much into it. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #7

No I didn't and I'm well aware of what the word "fundamentalism" means whathehell Aug 2012 #15

These people wanted to block a mosque in Tennessee that was later burned and rebuilt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #8

I got it, but A. it doesn't look like a very big crowd. B. If half are supporting the mosque, it's whathehell Aug 2012 #14

I wonder sulphurdunn Aug 2012 #3

Mostly poor. Igel Aug 2012 #4

Sorry, but whathehell Aug 2012 #6

People who have lost income over the previous 20-40 years happyslug Aug 2012 #10

Thank goodness there are some sane people there... Odin2005 Aug 2012 #9

Well... DJFrey Aug 2012 #11

The poor girl has Down's syndrome .... AnneD Aug 2012 #12

Believe it or Not oldsarge54 Aug 2012 #13