Muslims Are No Different, or Why Bill Maher’s Blood Libel Is Bigotry

[sabrina 1]

57. Wow, so to you, people who believe that a woman who has an abortion should

receive the death penalty are 'still more tolerant and respectful of human rights than people who believe two consenting adulterers should be stoned to death'.

So you think that people who support the death penalty for women who have abortions are 'morally consistent'?? Consistent with what? Morally? Is the death penalty moral? There is nothing moral about wanting the death penalty for women who have had abortions. There isn't even consistency for Right to Lifers, read that again 'Right to LIFE' demanding the DEATH penalty for anyone.

Here is what would be morally consistent if you are a Right To Lifer.

1)You would oppose all wars except in the case of an imminent threat that required self defense.

2)You would oppose the death penalty.

3)You would also oppose abortion.

But you cannot support WAR which involves DEATH and the DEATH PENALTY and think that by opposing ABORTION, you support Life. It simply doesn't compute.

You do know this is a Democratic forum btw?

'They aren't other people to me'. They live in other countries. Their business is their business. Since when is it our business to tell other countries how to run their affairs? Imperialism is largely responsible for the status of many third world countries, having robbed them of their resources, destroyed their cultures, not to mention killing untold numbers of them over the centuries.

We are NOT an Empire, although the attitude of many Americans lately, mostly right wingers, seem to believe that would be a good thing.

Here, read those numbers again, and remember, this is only 7 countries and even there it's hard to find anything close to the claims you are struggling so hard to make true:

In contrast, Muslims in Lebanon, Turkey and Indonesia largely reject the notion that harsh punishments should be the law in their countries. About three-quarters of Turkish and Lebanese Muslims oppose the stoning of people who commit adultery (77% and 76%, respectively), as does a narrower majority (55%) of Muslims in Indonesia.

Opposition to whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery and to the death penalty for people who leave Islam is even more widespread in these three countries; 86% of Muslims in Lebanon, 82% in Turkey and 61% in Indonesia are against making harsh punishments for robbery and theft the law in their countries, and 93%, 91% and 64%, respectively, object to the death penalty against those who leave the Muslim religion.

Those are pretty high numbers in opposition to what you claimed they supported. I wonder if the same poll were done here, how we would fare? Listening to the rantings and ravings from the bigots on the Right here, I think we may have a larger number of people right here who would support the death penalty for anyone who is not a Christian.