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Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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Post by jules »

vkou wrote: post #42
jules wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny that you mention those three countries in one breath like that.

Israel is an violent apartheid state, Saudi Arabia is a brutal theocracy... And, well, I guess Egypt is the odd man out?

I would say that Saudi Arabia is the odd one, and Israel is, given its circumstances, on far less low moral ground, for what that's worth. That is not to say that Israel does not do a great number of deplorable things, but certainly if Israel swapped weapons with Hamas then every Jew in Israel would be dead within a day.

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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Post by lemevi »

trhway wrote: post #49
pdabbadabba wrote: post #48

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Does ISIS have a lot of redeeming qualities that we're overlooking? If not, I'm not sure I can agree with the suggestion that its just a matter of framing whether ISIS is the villian or the United States. Say what you will about the U.S., but one would be hard pressed to say that it does no good around the world and only does things like bomb hospitals. But I'm not sure the same can be said of ISIS, unfortunately. Th…

>Does ISIS have a lot of redeeming qualities they do have. A lot. For Islamic true believers. The same way like Inquisition, with all the tortures and burning at stake, was for Christians. Blind devotion to religion may do that to you. >that we're overlooking? of course we don't see these redeeming qualities. Or more precisely - we do see these qualities, only we see them as condemning where is they see exactly the s…

> "For Islamic true believers"

I don't know any muslims personally, but I doubt that a majority of muslims, at least in the western world, believe ISIS has redeeming qualities. Is that true? Like what are those qualities that peaceful practitioners of Islam can redeem all those rapes and murders? Have you seen the Vice documentaries of kurdish fighting ISIS? ISIS are insane. They murder everyone. Even their own members: non-arabic speaking ISIS converts are used for suicide attacks. Tell me what redeems this behavior, wait I already know, nothing redeems this. Absolutely nothing in the mind of anyone who abhors violence and wishes for peace. You know, sane people.

Even other terrorists say ISIS goes to far. Hamas has spoken out against ISIS!

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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Post by tomjen3 »

derwildemomo wrote: post #4
corndoge wrote: post #2

I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic. Update: The least we can do: http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved/take-action-now/syria...

Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/ Of course, writing someone is useless most of the time, but within the powers we all have is also the power to cr…

This thread has been linked from a front page thread, sorry to reply so late.

According to Amnesty the letter writing campaign matters, because the government knows they can't hide what they are doing (and even though Assad is especially horrible, his regime must try to hide this, otherwise why sentence him in secret?) when sacks of mail starts to flow in from the entire world.

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