A trend we’re seeing more and more of from the “Religion of Peace”
On a summer morning in 2009, in canal locks east of Toronto, police made a grisly discovery: In a submerged Nissan car were the bodies of three teenage sisters and a 52-year-old woman.
A joyride gone tragically wrong, claimed the father, Mohammad Shafia, 58, who reported the disappearance. An “honor killing,’’ prosecutors allege. A murder trial is under way, heating up a national debate about how to better absorb immigrants into the Canadian cultural mainstream.
The prosecution accuses Afghan-born Shafia, his wife, and their 20-year-old son of killing the daughters because they dishonored the family by defying its disciplinarian rules on dress, dating, socializing and going online. The older victim was Shafia’s first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, who was living with him and his second wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, in Montreal. It was a polygamous relationship, the court has been told, and if revealed, could have resulted in their deportation.
Like the 2nd Amendment, the 1st Amendment also has some dangerous aspects if abused. But saying “Religious Death” is just as irrelevant as “Gun Death”, as religion didn’t cause this any more than guns cause “Gun Death”. Its the people, not the tool.
h/t Barron
I don’t know Weer’d, I think you’re reaching a bit here, though I agree with your intent. Even though the individual is always responsible for his/her actions, the fundamental human emotion(s) expressed by the word honor can’t be as easily separated from their expression. As example of what I’m trying to get across, is your wife merely the “tool” of your love? [Careful, she may read this some day and you have to sleep sometime :)]
Are you trying to say that Mohammed Shafia’s religion is the “tool” and that it equates to a gun being a tool? We agree that Shafia is responsible for his actions, but I’m just not seeing the connection between “religious death” and “gun death” that you seem to be making. I think it’s pretty clear that in fact the Islamic religion is both the inspiration and justification for actions just like his and the wording in the Koran urging these types of actions is pretty specific. I don’t read the anti-gun sites as closely as you do, are they making the claim that the 2A specifies and justifies individual American citizen acts of death and violence being committed upon others? My understanding has been that they assert (with essentially no evidence in support) that we who exercise our 2A rights are somehow abuseing them instead. Am I wrong about this?