Letters to the Editor
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To the Symbol guy
I want to say something about your comment that American law didn't condone the rape, torture, etc of slaves. I'm pretty sure the rape part was an added bonus for slavemasters, since miscegantion was probably illegal at the time, but I'm betting there were laws on the books (probably still are)in the south which said how slave masters were supposed to treat their property. Or at least said they had discretion to treat their slaves A/K/A 3/5 of a person, as they saw fit.
As to the article:
Basically people like Tina and symbol guy are never going to beleive that there are moderate muslims out there. And Lynx and others are going to say, well, judge not lest ye be judged throw up the ills committed by Christians. I don't know what has made Tina so vehemently anti-Islam (or anti-Muslim, I can't tell) and I do have to say, what happens to women and gay men, and infidels, in those countries scares the hebejebus out of me, but I think the whole debate is ridiculous. But I've read the same friggin argument on countless message boards and to be honest, it's getting us nowhere.
I feel bad the girl was killed in an apparent honor killing, but I feel bad when any person gets killed. Short of wiping out everyone from countries that practice honor killings, I don't think there's much we can do to stop it until they stop it. I don't know what I'm saying...