(November 6, 2012 at 11:44 am)Borunel Wrote: The problem is of course that unless I read the article wrong (and I may have done so as reading Huffington gives me nosebleeds and dizzy spells) there is no claim that there was a religious motivation here.
I won't defend (presumably) Islam but I think that here the problem is more tribal stone-aged idiots and stupid outmoded local social norms which may exist with or without religion.
This is every bit as hateful a thing as religious atrocity and indeed cultural and religious horrors tend to feed other.
The answer here though is not to crush religion (in this case) but to globally suppress cultural abnormality and to force errant societies and enclaves up to more universally acceptable standards of behaviour - simple things like not allowing any justification for maiming then allowing your daughter to die through denial of medical treatment just because they did something that annoyed you and you feel entitled because in cultural terms you actually own their corpus.
Also I don't believe we are going to have to lose a few billion people - I think we are going to have to get our fingers out and colonize other planets so that humanity can spread across the galaxy like a plague - although hopefully with a unified standard of social behaviour..
It was an honour killing.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
