[FoRK] 16 year old girl "Peace and Love"d to Death over Hijab

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Aaron,

On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:23:17PM -0800, Tom Higgins wrote:
>> Deities and Dress Codes, yea ya know if you keep making excuses for
>> this stuff it keeps happening.
>
> Been hearing aboot that for the past few days up here in Canada.
> I still think it wasn't religion per se, just plain ol' domestic  
> violence.

Tut, tut, Aaron. Don't you realize that *every* evil act committed by  
a religious person *must* be because of their religion, whereas any  
good act done by a religious person is to due to social and cultural  
factors?

:-)

> Not that it helps her any,
>  Aaron

Yeah, that's the real tragedy.  I fear we both (religious and secular  
alike) are so busy blaming each other for the problems of the world we  
don't have any time left to solve them...

:-(

-- Ernie P.