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2007-07-06 Southeast Asia

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Posted by ryuge 2007-07-06 08:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This raises a very important philosophical question:

Beheading or Stoning?

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-07-06 09:02|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-07-06 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 If you convert to Hinduism, don't you have to be assigned to a caste? Seriously, what's the answer?

Posted by Penguin 2007-07-06 10:07|| 2007-07-06 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Lim Kit Siang, chairman of the opposition Democratic Action Party, said Friday that moderate Muslims must be concerned by such cases because they could hurt Malaysia's image by showing "a narrow and intolerant face of Islam."

Bit late for that Mr Siang, just a wee bit too late my son...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-07-06 10:18|| 2007-07-06 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 "Because of their behavior, I loathe Islam even more now," she told reporters.

You and me both, lady.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-07-06 11:52|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-07-06 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 If you convert to Hinduism, don't you have to be assigned to a caste? Seriously, what's the answer?

That's an interesting question, which John Frum will most certainly answer if he sees it. Out of thin air, I'd say a caste is birth-derived, you are born into it, you do not change it, enter or exit it (unless you convert out of hinduism altogether), whatever you do, social-wise. But, OTOH, converts may go to a specific caste?

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-06 13:37|| 2007-07-06 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 So... when does the state sponsored honor killing happen?

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-06 15:16|| 2007-07-06 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Now one can see how easy it is to lose religion all together. In the case of Islam it is utterly incompatible with any and all other religions. One has to wonder how many practice it only because it is impossible to escape. Where is freedom of choice? Freedom of conscious? Islam will tell you these are sick and forbidden western ideas.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-07-06 21:37|| 2007-07-06 21:37|| Front Page Top

#8 There are pan-deist versions of Hinduism. While fundamentalist Muslims ground their cult on the Koran, fundamentalist Hindus reject many ancient practices - sati (suicide of widows) for example - as legacies of Muslim and Western occupation. I maintain that Hinduism is adaptive to both modernism and secularism. Islam is not.

Posted by McZoid 2007-07-06 22:28|| 2007-07-06 22:28|| Front Page Top

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