Asia Bibi and the Pakistan Blasphemy Laws – sentenced to death for drinking water!

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There is a war going on in Pakistan regarding the insane blasphemy laws. Hard line clerics have called out masses of people to protest that the laws are being diluted.

Diluted!!  They need chucking out!!  The blasphemy laws are barbaric!!

Asia Bibi is a Christian. She was out harvesting berries with a group of Muslim women. They protested about her drinking water from the same bowl as them and accused her of insulting the prophet. In 2010 court found her guilty and sentenced her to death by hanging.

She is still in prison awaiting death. Violent fanatics have threatened her family and say they will kill Asia if she is released.

This is the madness of fundamentalist religion!!

Terrorism – Parallel to the Southern American terror of the Ku Klux Klan and the Civil Rights Movement.

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The aim of the terrorists is to impose their narrow view on the population, create fear and vent their hatred.

Back in the 1960s the black population of the Southern parts of the United States were subjugated through terror. There were beatings, shootings and killing.

At night men in robes and hoods would ride through a community and place a burning cross in front of any house that had someone who was getting uppity. It was a chilling warning. If unheeded fire-bombing, shooting and murder would result.

The people were terrified.

But after a while brave members of the community began to raise their heads and demand justice. Many of these were shot or lynched. More came along to take up the cause until there were too many marching for the terror to work anymore.

I salute the bravery of those early black activists and the white activists who came down from the North to support them.

Here’s to Martin Luther King, Medgar Evans, Michael Schwerner, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman and all the hundreds of others who died in that struggle.

The virulent racists of the South were defeated just as the hate-filled Islamic jihadists will be.

The Taliban & religious fanaticism.

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Through history we find religions of all persuasions guilty of the most barbaric acts. In Britain the fundamental Christians at the time of Thomas Cromwell were well versed in routinely using the most gruesome torture to gain confessions. Catholics were regularly burnt to death at Smithfield market.

We have seen pressing, crucifixion, impalement, starvation and exposure in metal cages and stoning used to punish the unbelievers.

The insane fundamentalists believe they have a God-given right to inflict their views on the whole world. It has led to jihads, crusades, holocausts, pogroms, witch-hunts and ritual slaughter. Trainloads of mutilated corpses went both ways following India’s partition. The Jews believe they have a right to steal land and homes. We regularly are digging up mass graves in Bosnia, Sarajevo, and Syria………..

Is there no end to the barbaric practices of believers?

The latest brand of fundamental madness can be seen in the Islamic monsters who give full vent to their primitive, callous, uncaring viciousness. Yesterday they butchered defenceless children with Kalashnikovs. They planned it coldly and put the plan into practice without mercy or remorse. Yesterday they deliberately burnt a teacher to death in front of their class. None of this was done on the spur of the moment. It was carefully planned out with meticulous detail. This was premeditated murder. I think we can safely say that all the people involved in that planning were not actually involved in carrying it out. They do not seem to have the same thirst for the fictitious paradise they are quite happy to send their brain-washed disciples off to. They were watching from afar.

Seemingly the followers of the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Shabaab, Al-Quaeda, Boko Haram and the rest all feel that they are carrying out god’s will. For some reason they think it is OK to burn someone alive, murder children, torture children, blow up schools, subordinate women, slaughter anyone who believes something different, blow up innocent people in Mosques, train stations and planes, and fly planes into buildings.

Only insane or heavily brain-washed people feel that any god would condone such inhuman behaviour.

Yet these murderous sub-humans are attracting in huge numbers of people from civilised countries. What is it in human nature that turns pleasant people into cold-blooded monsters?

Something is very wrong with Islam.

It is time for all civilised people to stand up against these psychotic murderers.

Where is the age of Muslim Enlightenment?

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Christianity used to be a draconian religion with rabid fundamentalist values. It adored burning people alive, torturing them and doing the most heinous punishments. The price for not believing was protracted agony and death. Millions of people were hideously murdered in the name of Christianity. Everyone was forced to abide by religious values, wear ridiculous costume and worship.
Fortunately there was a rebellion and an age of enlightenment followed that separated State from Religion. We became a civilised culture with freedom and choice. Centuries of enslavement was swept away. The church lost its power.
Unfortunately this is not true in the Muslim world.
There is no separation of secular from religious in many Muslim states. People are forced to abide by religious dogma. The penalty for not doing so is barbaric – death by stoning or beheading.
In a modern world with universal human rights this is simply wrong. Imposition is wrong! It is time moderate Muslims rose up and created a moderate Islamic response to Islamic fundamentalism. This fascism cannot be tolerated. It needs opposing. That opposition should not be violent but verbal.
Words carry power
Where is the voice of moderate Islam?

Join the new Zeitgeist! – Let’s build a better world!Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie – This machine kills fascists!

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Woody Guthrie used to go around with a sign saying ‘This machine kills fascists’ on his guitar. You cannot defeat fascism, such as Islamic fundamentalism, through violence. You win people over with the power of words.
Justice, freedom, equality and fairness carry more power than an atomic bomb!

Join the new zeitgeist! Build a better world with a smile and a handshake!

Woody Guthrie