she supposedly "faked" the travel papers she actually got from the South Sudan embassy....

@gftchris said:

You seen anything on why exactly they were arrested? I've looked but can't find anything.

@calfoxwc said:

I think they look like unreasonable extremist thugs.

Or po'd that the media coverage made them look like reasonable extremist thugs.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/meriam-ibrahim-rearrested-in-sudan-christian-woman-and-husband-arrested-at-airport-less-than-24-hours-after-release-122109/

She was apparently released.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Islamists? Generally dicks, very occasionally violent. Muslims? Perfectly normal. Except they don't have bacon on their cheeseburgers.

@logicisforsquares said:

In a nutshell, this pretty much sums up most of the 'islam is bad' stories we read. Most, I said, not all.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Pakistan woman stoned to death by family for marrying man she loved

By By Mubasher Bukhari5 hours ago

By Mubasher Bukhari

LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.

Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer.

Her father, two brothers and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.

All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honor. Many Pakistani families think a woman marrying her own choice of man brings dishonor on the family.

Iqbal had been engaged to her cousin but married another man, Cheema said. Her family registered a kidnapping case against him but Iqbal had come to court to argue that she had married of her own free will, he said.

Around 1,000 Pakistani women are killed every year by their families in honor killings, according to Pakistani rights group the Aurat Foundation.

The true figure is probably many times higher since the Aurat Foundation only compiles figures from newspaper reports. The government does not compile national statistics.

Campaigners say few cases come to court, and those that do can take years to be heard. No one tracks how many cases are successfully prosecuted.

Even those that do result in a conviction may end with the killers walking free. Pakistani law allows a victim's family to forgive their killer.

But in honor killings, most of the time the women's killers are her family, said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation. The law allows them to nominate someone to do the murder, then forgive him.

"This is a huge flaw in the law," he said. "We are really struggling on this issue."

(Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Pakistan is a fucked up toilet. Fucked up things happen in a fucked up toilet country. I doubt having the Jesus would make them civilized, non-tards.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

It's mandatory now that the UK, and pretty soon Europe is under Sharia law.

@gftchris said:

Just when I thought we were going to have an actual sensible hyperbolic discussion...

I guess. I mean I thought we both accepted the idea its location, location location. But if I have to agree that its all equal in today's world, sorry.

WSS

@gftchris said:

Just when I thought we were going to have an actual sensible hyperbolic discussion...

Well I'm glad Chris gets it at least.

it's just an excuse. Power and territory that's the key. Just like animals in the wild.

WSS

Like the barkeeper in Darby O'Gill said to Pony Sugru, if I were 10 years younger...

Ahh, said Pony, but you're not 10 years younger are you?

WSS

@westside-steve said:

Obviously not. What I would ask you is, if the demographies were reversed - if Europe/USA were mainly mulsim, and Africa/Middle East mainly christian, do you think the distribution would be also reversed by the same amount? I mean, if you look in the bible, you can find passages suggesting that women cover their heads, that pork not be eaten, that infidels should be vanquished etc. and it's only through our western enlightenment era (IMO) that we've grown out of taking the bible so literally. Perhaps middle east/africa is going to have its own elightenment at some point in the next few centuries? Who knows.

Perhaps in a few generations religious people will be in the minority. Perhaps there'll be some new messiah that makes the world more religious? Who knows.

@gftchris said:

It's still beside the point, Steve. All it takes is someone twisting some religious doctrine to their own views, and a gullible person with power, and you've got trouble. Sadly, those two types of people are not in short supply.

That's correct. Do you think the incidents in today's world are pretty much equally divided then?

WSS