Sorry but you're wrong. We do not have stoning in our culture. We don't rape women and consider it acceptable; it's large believed to be a horrible crime.
I've lived for 6 years in one of the most fundamentalist islamic countries in the world. Trust me when I say there is absolutely no comparison you can make that Christians in America do the same things.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Oh, come on. There is plenty of f*cked up stuff that Christian extremists do, and if you were to just Christians only by the worst things that they do -- bombing abortion clinics and killing gays -- you would have a pretty skewed version of what Christianity is like. Anybody who judges any entire religion based on the bad things they read about it is pretty dumb, IMO.
The thing is that stuff like this happens in America, too. All over America? Of course not. But in certain places? Definitely. And obviously this sort of thing doesn't happen ALL over France, as the article made clear. Attitudes towards rape are sometimes not much different here than the people quoted in this article. I was eating dinner with my family last weekend while the people in the booth next to us were discussing the Kobe case. They distinctly used the phrase "Boys will be boys" and said that if girls wear "scandalous clothing" they're asking for it. That's not all that far from "If they go in that basement, they know what will happen," which is in itself not far from the Italian argument that if a girl was wearing pants, she couldn't have been raped, it had to have been consensual. After all, it's not like someone could have forced her to take her pants off . . .
I agree with Rudey though. "Respect the culture" is bullsh*t in cases like this.
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