Fri, 19 Nov 2004

14 year old boy dies after receiving 85 lashes for breaking his Ramadan fast

Heathenry has no concept of the fast, or any sort of ritualized denial. Why would the gods want us to impose hardships on ourselves? Life is hard enough without trying to do ourselves in. We don't make the connection that "suffering = holy". It's pretty incomprehensible to us.

Unfortunately, in most fo the rest of the world, and especially in the Muslim world, these common sense notions are roundly ignored and denied. Their divine powers want you to suffer, and if you don't impose enough suffering on yourself, the religious authorities are always glad to give god a helping hand. And you get tragedy as a result.

They say that Allah is "The Compassionate, The Merciful". I say "Not!" And this pretty much bolsters my case.

A 14 year old boy died on Thursday, November 11th, after having received 85 lashes; according to the ruling of the Mullah judge of the public circuit court in the town of Sanandadj he was guilty of breaking his fast during the month of Ramadan.

(link) [Iran Press News]

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