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Old 01-06-2017, 01:44 PM #73
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Originally Posted by Niamh. View Post
It's a cultural thing though and not specific to Islam is the only point I was trying to make here. They have the same type of kangaroo courts in India where 80% of the population are Hindu. I believe alot of it is to do with poverty and lack of education. There's a link to similar awful "rulings" that happened in India


http://www.womensweb.in/2015/09/5-de...ack-dark-ages/
I disagree that it is cultural if you are discounting the influence of the religion of a religious state on it. I'm not really talking about India, we're talking specifically about a country that calls itself an Islamic state.

Ireland for example has been a catholic country and a non catholic would have struggled to achieve very much that wasn't in keeping with the faith, like having an abortion for instance. Or even speaking out against the faith, wasn't there some controversy over Stephen Fry recently?
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