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A piece about the treatment of Muslims who converted to Christianity in Britain
Most disturbing, I do often wonder are secular societies able to deal with these problems adequately ~ any interference in matters of religion are often after the fact and barely scratch the surface of what causes it. In light of attacks against Islamic apostates and on occasion critics of Islam (Theo Van Gough and the murder of the Coptic Christian Armanious family come to mind), honour killings and mysogyny is there an irreconcilable issue between these religious practices and secular society, should the law come down very hard on religious leaders who condone such deeds even if in a non-specific manner.
I think that this type of behaviour has no place in any progressive secular society and that those who commit or condone such crimes should be locked away or deported ~ freedom of religion must be preserved and it must be the duty of the government ensure that those who threaten that right are put out of the picture.
Thoughts.
Muslim apostates cast out and at risk from faith and family
By Anthony Browne
While Christians who turn to Islam are feted, the 200,000 Muslims who turn away are faced with abuse, violence and even murder
THE first brick was thrown through the sitting room window at one in the morning, waking Nissar Hussein, his wife and five children with a terrifying start. The second brick went through his car window.
It was a shock, but hardly a surprise. The week before, another brick had been thrown through the window as the family were preparing for bed in their Bradford home. The victim of a three-year campaign of religious hatred, Mr Hussein’s car has also been rammed and torched, and the steps to his home have been strewn with rubbish.
He and his family have been regularly jostled, abused, attacked, shouted at to move out of the area, and given death threats in the street. His wife has been held hostage inside their home for two hours by a mob. His car, walls and windows have been daubed in graffiti: “Christian bastard”.
linkAlthough some are beaten “black and blue” for their faith, others suffer even more. The family of an 18-year-old girl whom Yasmin was helping found that she had been hiding a Bible in her room, and visiting church secretly. “I tried to do as much as possible to help her, but they took her to Pakistan ‘on holiday’. Three weeks later, she was drowned — they said that she went out in the middle of the night and slipped in the river, but she just wouldn ’t have done that,” said Yasmin.
Most disturbing, I do often wonder are secular societies able to deal with these problems adequately ~ any interference in matters of religion are often after the fact and barely scratch the surface of what causes it. In light of attacks against Islamic apostates and on occasion critics of Islam (Theo Van Gough and the murder of the Coptic Christian Armanious family come to mind), honour killings and mysogyny is there an irreconcilable issue between these religious practices and secular society, should the law come down very hard on religious leaders who condone such deeds even if in a non-specific manner.
I think that this type of behaviour has no place in any progressive secular society and that those who commit or condone such crimes should be locked away or deported ~ freedom of religion must be preserved and it must be the duty of the government ensure that those who threaten that right are put out of the picture.
Thoughts.
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