BTW: I did not notice this mentioned in the news here in KL. Not that I expected it to. Most people here probably considered it “none of our business/send the Saudi back to his own country”. It’ll be very hard to find any supporter for this guy.

He shouldn’t have came here. The government is facing election soon, and finds it politically more convenient to send him back to Saudi Arabia than on to New Zealand. This is a Muslim majority country. The opposition is a single coalition, comprising mostly of 3 major parties. The lead party draws much of its support from Muslims, and of the other two, one is Islamist. The last one just don’t want to rock the boat of their precious coalition.

http://www.translatedweb.com/es/boing-boing/interpol-acusada-despues-del-arresto-de-un-periodista-en-arabia-saudi-por-un-tweet-sobre 

Greetings.

Blasphemy Day II, or something. Hack the govt websites with cartoons and satire. 

Yeah, considering how many newspapers, TV shows, and websites were too gutless to display the Danish cartoons, I can see a whole lot of success for this plan.

That said, while there are certainly people held indefinitely and injustly, there are many, many people that belong there.  That further said, I don’t think that those who belong there should be held indefinitely under vague or no charges at all and without trial.

I’m sure if anyone should be put in charge of some water-boarding, anything goes type gulag, we have a couple veto-happy UN partners that would be better suited to that end and with a proven track record to boot.

To those who think the Middle East and by extension the Muslim faith is being unjustly accused of disgusting abuses of human rights please join me in asking their governments to stop institutionalizing the imprisonment, terror, torture, rape, and murder of their own people under the guise of religious “law”.

I’ll make you a deal. You ask your country to stop rendition flights to deliver people to our close allies to be tortured, and I’ll take your request under advisement.

I realize these are murky waters as for example, politely asking Syria to stop persecuting and slaughtering its own citizens might actually in itself be religiously persecuting the Syrian people by not allowing their rightfully elected/ordained government to police the tenants of its religious law as it sees fit.

Also, plead with your governments and the Arab League to take care of their own problems, to stop pleading with the US and UN (as they are right now in regards to Syria) to step in and take care of these problems while at the same time accusing them of being oil-hungry invaders plotting with the “evil” Zionists overlords to overthrow the Middle East.  We’re not good with “mixed” signals.

Agreed, and many of the Muslims I have met here in the USA seem to be of that reasonable point of view.

It’s just a pity that the vast majority of countries in which they are freely allowed to say so, are those countries which are not majority Muslim.

By that logic, since the Al Quaeda operatives were were all members of the Flight Club of Florida, and one of them had a Mouseketeer Club card in his wallet, we should have razed Florida to the ground and waterboarded Annette Funicello.

You can substitute locomotives, existential angst, and three prong one slot widgets, if you prefer, and try the question again.

I bet you have the nicest bridge in all of Trollsville.

Your statement is correct when talking about creationists, especially the young Earth variety. But a VAST majority don’t believe in a young earth.  So other than a belief in god (which can neither be proven or dis-proven), the statement that there is evidence to the contrary is dishonest at best for a majority of Christians. Heck, the Catholics, with all their faults, actually have an academy of science.

And if all it takes is to “hold erroneous beliefs even in the face of evidence to the contrary.” pretty much every person is guilty of this. Even you.

Homeopathy, aromatherapy, vitamins and supplements, diet schemes, vaccination link with autism, contrails, aliens,   the good nature of man – all of these lack proof of their existence, but  millions believe in one or more of them.

I am sure if you think hard you can come up with something you believe that isn’t grounded 100% in fact.

Donatism

Idiomatically, it’s old wives’ tales.

 Not quite sure why you mentioned them.

Hmm. I guess I was shocked that “vandalism”, “rape”, and “overstaying ones visa” were lumped together, but upon reflection, the US lumps together “software piracy” with “second degree murder” in the sentencing guidelines.