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11/21/09
1.) Under Shariah, adultery is a capital crime, which affects women more than men because under Shariah men can have four wives and its real easy for men to get "approval" from a local imam to fuck more than one woman by simply "marrying" them. And they have "no obligation" marriage contracts where women then agree to give up their rights to inheritance and custody, in return usually for material things, like an apartment or car or even a monthly stipend. This is basically designed to give religious approval for men (and only men) to have mistresses. In other words, men can legally cheat monogamy but women cannot, and if they do they can be stoned to death (in Shariah's purest form).
2.) Diyyah, or "blood money," helps rich people get away with crimes because the wealthier you are the more likely you can meet the diyyah demands of the victims or victim's next-of-kin. Remember that sheikh that tortured that guy in Dubai? He could afford to pay the huge diyyah that the victim demanded. If it had been reversed: the poor Afghan merchant torturing a rich Emirati sheikh, the merchant would not have been able to meet the diyyah demand. Diyyah helps rich people get away with crimes by allowing them to use their wealth to pay off blood money demands. Poor people must rely on charity to do the same. Poor people are more likely to be executed for capital crimes under this system.
3.) Legal representation is optional. If you can afford it, you can retain a legal representative. If you cannot, tough titty; you go before the judge anyway (while the other guy might have lawyers). Again, poor people must rely on pro bono charity. So poor people are more likely to not have legal representation in a Shariah court.
4.) Other than the prescribed capital crimes, judges can assign punishments at their discretion. So judge A gives one guy who mugged an old lady 20 years and 4,000 lashes. Judge B might assign five years and 500 lashes for the same crime.
So, yeah, Shariah sucks for at least these four reasons.
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I just thought I'd share this little gem of Wesley Pruden pledging allegiance to the... Confederate Flag. "The American mainstream," ftw! #outrage
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I remember he had a small statue of Robert E. Lee in his office. #outrage
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To be attracted to men who worked for and earned their status (as opposed to those who were born directly into prosperity - if not money and power), is so un-American! She should've been attracted to the idle European royalty and brought us the crown, damn it!
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I remember back in the 60's, when grunge music was all the rage, my female companion and I were looking for a well-hung addition to our commune in Maui.
At the time, Maui was less a destination for surfers and more a hideout for Black Panthers and surf Nazis. One night, while taking PCP, I said to the woman whom I was having casual sex with but was not married to, "Moonbeam, we're already harboring a lesbian Vietnamese baby, a pygmy Aborigine who only speaks French, a pair of criminally-insane Arab conjoined twins, and Adolf Hitler. What we need for our family-cum-terror cell is a big Black man to have sex with our children and the good white kids in the neighborhood."
Obviously, Moonbeam was intrigued. All the abortions that she had had that year left her with an irrational hatred for Christianity and nothing would please her more than destroying America, the Greatest Nation That God Ever Conceived Of To Bless This Jesus-Loving Planet. So, we hijacked an El-Al flight.
Now, the flight was full of rabbis who had professed their love for the Gospel and apologized thrice daily for killing Christ and all that weight meant that our plane, originally bound for Jerusalem, would not make it to Kenya City (being the capital of Kenya). So we threw the rabbis out the door, laughing and yelling "Allahu Akbar" as we tossed each one out. This was normal behavior for us drug-addled liberal hippie grungesters ever since the Vietnamese had devised a way to make The Gay into a virus.
We had an easy time finding a Black man with a huge penis as Kenya is filled with them. In fact, the entire Nation of Africa is filled with Black men with large penises. We had offered to purchase him but were advised that Christian missionaries abolished slavery and that us, being liberals, were racist in thinking that Black people should be bought and sold.
One of them said, "Haven't you even heard of the Rev. Jerry Falwell? You know - the man who singlehandedly made America a nation that does not judge people based on race, wealth, religion, or political affiliation!"
We obviously could not permit this tolerance to spread from The Dark Continent so we killed all the Christian Missionaries, kidnapped the Black man, and came up with a carefully constructed scheme whereby our hippie grunge commune would bring into this world a Mulatto halfbreed, give him the education of a White person (thus ensuring that he was articulate), and indoctrinate him with our vicious Liberalism.
We placed him with an ACORN coven of community organizers, who continued to feed him lies about how horrible America is and how the Poors deserve better. By sending him to Chicago, we were able to bribe the electorate at every turn from our DNC offices and our plan to make him President succeeded.
Congratulations, Mr. Pruden, for discovering our plot. #outrage
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Yeah, if only Ann Dunham had been attracted to lily-white bluebloods from Massachusetts and Yale, we could've had a president who mangles the language, the Constitution and millions of human lives. #outrage
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