SOME EXAMPLES OF SHAMEFUL BEHAVOUR BY THE SEEMINGLY RELIGIOUS!

ISLAM

SAUDI ARABIA

Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to stop the execution of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery."

According to Arab News, an English language Saudi daily newspaper, after the most recent verdict was issued, the judges in Medina issued a statement expressing that Sibat deserved to be executed for having continually practiced black magic on his show, adding that this sentence would deter others from practicing sorcery. Arab News reports that the case will now return to the appeals court in Mecca.

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MALAYSIA

Extracts:

20 March 2010

Guests at the Penarik Inn here were flabbergasted by the actions of a group of men said to be from the state Religious Affairs Department (JHEAT) who conducted a raid yesterday morning.

Guests claimed they were rudely awakened at 2.25am by loud, incessant banging on their chalet doors…….

He said during the raid yesterday, a couple was taken away by the group and were only sent back at 6am after they proved that they were legally married.

"It was a harrowing experience for them. They checked out immediately and I don't know if they will ever stay at my chalet again."

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ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY

NIGERIA

The central city of Jos is on high alert after Sunday's Nigeria violence in which a late-night attack by herdsmen killed up to 500 people from nearby farming villages. The attack has been seen as a reprisal for attacks in January, in which about 300 herdsmen were killed by youth from the farming community.

Jos is also right on the de facto fault line separating the Nigeria's mainly Muslim north from its mainly Christian south. The farming community in Jos are primarily Christians of the Berom ethnic group, while the herders are ethnic Fulanis who practice Islam.

CHRISTIANITY (Roman Catholic)

WORLWIDE

Example:

A report commissioned by the Church the following year said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children - mostly boys.

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Religious hypocrites and ‘holier than thou' attitudes are combining with lack of education, and fear, through ignorance, of the various religious leaders.

Abuse of power and trust, the mixing of politics and religion are some of the root causes of such events as those illustrated above.

Freedom of religion should be upheld everywhere, it is after all a basic human right.

We all should have respect for all religions and their followers. At the same time should strongly condemn all types of shameful behaviour carried out in the name of religion.

Religious belief, or not believing in religion, being an atheist, an agnostic, a freethinker, or whatever a person believes in or does not believe in, is a personal and private matter.

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Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum


While we have the time, let us do good




De asini umbra disceptare


To argue about the shadow of an ass

Sunbeds, A Ship Captain and Sun Worshippers

Sunbeds

A Ship Captain

& Sun Worshippers

A British cruise ship captain and his wife were criticised recently after passengers who reserved sun loungers were berated for their "Germanic behaviour".

Captain Wells, 52, Master of the 77,000-ton passenger ship 'Oceana', caused more than a little controversy when he used the ship's PA system to ask passengers not to reserve sun loungers which they were not using.

'Oceania'

The captain, whose wife, Hedda, is German, is reported to have announced: "We don't want that kind of Germanic behaviour here!"

Captain Wells is understood to have apologised to Germans on board his ship during a 15-day P&O Caribbean cruise, now he faces an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over whether his remarks were racist. More ridiculous over the top, far end of a fart, political correctness.

The row began a few days into the cruise, when some of the more than 2,000 passengers on board the ship complained about sun beds in prime spots being "reserved" with towels, novels and bags.

One female passenger said the crew had tried unsuccessfully to put a stop to the "bed bagging". "There were enough loungers for everyone, provided they were not reserved when not in use."

The complaints came to the attention of the Captain and he tried to defuse the situation by allowing other passengers to commandeer sunbeds that had remained vacant for 20 minutes.

This caused even more mayhem, as 'happy holiday makers' hovered over vacant sun beds with stopwatches, as though they were conducting time and motion studies, counting down the “20 minutes”, this then led to heated arguments and people nearly coming to blows, it was what may have turned in to 'The War of the Sun Beds'

Finally, Captain Wells used the ship's PA system to make his controversial announcement.

A spokesman for P&O said: "Captain Wells apologises unreservedly for any offence caused."

It was not reported what Captain Wells really said, but perhaps it was something like;

'If you don't like it, then bloody well lump it!'

Cruise lines have many ways of making their passengers happy and contented, they can do it well enough without outside interference!

Good for you Captain Wells, mutinies by passengers need to be dealt with firmly and any incidents must be nipped in the bud.

To hell with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you acted correctly Captain.

Sail onwards, may the wind always be fair and at your back.

Navigare necesse est

- To sail is necessary