• _deleted_@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    How is it even possible in the twenty first century for blasphemy to be a crime? What sort of personality requires punishment for disrespecting a non-existent imaginary friend?

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      17 hours ago

      What do you expect? It’s kind of easy if leadership believes that the entity in question is not non-existent, imaginary, nor a friend.

    • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Oil.

      America gives zero shits about human rights if you willingly give up your natural resources.

      We’re arming over 80% of the world’s dictatorships, which makes us the least democratic nation in the world if you see democracy as a universal principle.

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      1 day ago

      I’m just gonna say Muslim country and click the article.

      Nevermind could have read the comments. Saudi.

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        16 hours ago

        It’s our client state, FFS. Dude was an indetured servant for royalty.

        It’s not a Muslim country who has more prisoners than any other nation through legalized slavery under the 13th Amendment.

        This is about capitalism and empire, not religion.

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          16 hours ago

          Hindu mobs are killing people on rumors they ate a cow. Christians are still burning “witches” in Africa. There’s nothing special about Muslims.

    • Hirom@beehaw.org
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      Religious fundamentalists enabled by wealthy oil producers and supine complicity.