There are no moderate Muslims until they clean their own house …

Once again we see 12th-century barbaric practices which would not be tolerated in any civilized country on the face of this Earth openly practiced by Muslims – with nary a word from the United Nations who is debating whether or not to pass a rule restricting defamation of religion – offered and promoted  by the Muslims who apparently have no concept of religious tolerance or human freedom.

The BBC is reporting … 

Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby. Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only control parts of the capital. This is the third time Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery in the past year. Al-Shabab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed said Mr Abdirahman had confessed to adultery before an Islamic court. They [al-Shabab] are forcing women to wear very heavy clothes, saying they want them to properly cover their bodies but we know they have economic interests behind - they sell these kinds of clothes and want to force people to buy them President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed "He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving," an eyewitness told the BBC. The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also killed, her baby would be given to relatives to look after. Meanwhile, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused al-Shabab of spoiling the image of Islam by killing people and harassing women. "Their actions have nothing to do with Islam," said the moderate Islamist during a ceremony at which he nominated a new administration for the capital, Mogadishu. "They are forcing women to wear very heavy clothes, saying they want them to properly cover their bodies but we know they have economic interests behind - they sell these kinds of clothes and want to force people to buy them." Last month, two men were stoned to death in the same town after being accused of spying. A 13-year-old girl was stoned to death for adultery in the southern town of Kismayo last year. Human rights groups said she had been raped. Another man has also been punished in this way in the Lower Shabelle region. Mr Sharif, a former rebel leader, was sworn in as president after UN-brokered peace talks in January. Although he says he also wants to implement Sharia, al-Shabab says his version of Islamic law would be too lenient. The country has not had a functioning national government for 18 years.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Islam has either no real legitimacy as far as human rights are concerned or that the religion has been perverted by centuries of control-freaks who demand absolute loyalty to both their religion and their religious leaders.

How can those human rights organizations in the world who openly condemn executions in the United States as being inhumane even begin to explain why they continue to write reports and point fingers when a mother will be killed as soon as she delivers her child?

Where is the United Nations in openly condemning religious intolerance and barbaric punishments that are used to control human behavior?

And where is the hypocritical mainstream media in championing human rights and condemning a religion and religious leaders who promote this egregious behavior. To believe that those who committed this atrocity are pious and will be rewarded in heaven is to believe in a very different God and a very intolerant and dangerous religion. Perhaps why Islam has no stories about the creation and seems to be a plagiarized version of Judeo-Christian philosophy as modified by politicized  religious leaders who demand absolute control over others.

Perhaps the solution lies in a greater separation between church and state – where the duly constituted state authorities do not have the right or ability to carry out barbarous religious acts. But that might lead to the promotion of human rights and freedoms – possibly to the detriment of the rulers who demand absolute loyalty to their regime so they can continue to plunder the wealth of their nations and enslave their people.

So the next time someone at the United Nations stands up to defend Human Rights, remember some of the most corrupt and evil regimes have headed the U.N. Human Rights Commission – proof positive that the United Nations is both corrupt and impotent.

-- steve

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