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When the persecuted strike back!

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When the persecuted strike back!
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When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 5:44 pm
http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/sal...men-408068

Salafi (wahabist) Vigilantes Get the Cain from Enraged Egyptian Women

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Quote:Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian news media. But when they burst into a beauty salon in the Nile delta town of Benha this week and ordered the women inside to stop what they were doing or face physical punishment, the women struck back, whipping them with their own canes before kicking them out to the street in front of an astonished crowd of onlookers.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Charming story but I expect the fucking religious shitwits to prevail in the end.

They'll claim that allah is on their side and the moderates will stand aside.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Read The Islamist by Ed Husain, awesome book, he spent time in Saudi and hated the Wahhabi, crazy crazy right wingers, the police of vice and virtue? kick the shit out of muslims who even nod at Mohamed's 'tomb', they call other muslims polytheists because of the Mohamed worship.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:12 pm
I applaud these women for having the stones to stand up to tyrants, but I can't help but be reminded of this quote from 'Casino' describing Joe Pesci's character.

Quote:You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:13 pm
You can really see how this is a postive advancement of the human condition is heavily conservative Islamic communities when the story doesn't end with "... and the women were all stoned to death."
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Quote:and the women were all stoned to death.


Give it time.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Still, hard not to cheer.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 9, 2012 at 6:58 pm
(January 9, 2012 at 6:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:and the women were all stoned to death.


Give it time.
Not if we help it.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 10, 2012 at 12:38 am
We aren't going to do shit.
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RE: When the persecuted strike back!
January 10, 2012 at 1:50 am (This post was last modified: January 10, 2012 at 1:59 am by KichigaiNeko.)
It is not our country to "do" anything about. Thumb up to the ladies though...they happen to be mothers??
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