A recent news article reports the sad, sick tale of a 13 year old girl in Somalia. She was raped by three men and reported this to her father who, naturally outraged, went to the authorities – in this case an Islamist rebel administration known as al-Shabab. Did these militia vow to hunt down the three rapists and bring them to justice?
No, they arrested the 13 year old girl and then arranged for her to be stoned to death for ‘adultery’ in front of an audience of 1,000 spectators in the local stadium. This is the sort of behaviour that makes me ashamed to be a human being. I can strain my imagination to the limit but cannot find any understanding of why, under any circumstances, a person would find themselves capable of thinking that this was the ‘right’ thing to do. This is something that is so far out of my limits of understanding that I can almost believe that these murdering arseholes must be strange aliens who have taken up residence on this planet.
And, to make it worse, these aliens commit this act in the name of religion. Does a belief in supernatural nonsense make you more susceptible to these acts? Maybe the answer is yes, but I also believe that the percentage of Muslims in this world who would agree with this act, would be very, very few indeed. So we can’t really blame religion here, but what then makes these people think they can justify such a gross, barbaric act? And a greater mystery still is why 1,000 or more people turn up to watch this ultimate horror show? I certainly have no answers, in fact, I understand this so little that I don’t even know what questions to ask.
Horrified and dumbfounded.
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