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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-07-14 11:54 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:10:40 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2018-07-14 12:12 AM, graham wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-13 8:16 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>
>>> Let me put it another way. One can respect a person's right to hold
>>> religious beliefs. You don't have to respect (or admire) those beliefs.
>>
>>
>> Failure to abide by some of their beliefs can get people into trouble
>> sometimes. Sometimes those beliefs run counter to my beliefs. I find it
>> had to accept that I should be expected to respect the belief some hold
>> that their women must be covered head to toe and that should be beaten
>> for failure to do so, and that they can be killed to protect the
>> family's honour. Sorry, but I cant respect their right to hold religious
>> beliefs like that any more than I should be able to hold beliefs like
>> that privately.
>
> By and large those are not religious beliefs but rather extremes to
> justify the acts committed. Nowhere does Islam support those beliefs
> anymore than you could say Christianity supports all the men in Canada
> who murdered their wives/SOs last year.
>

It is hard to say that Islam does not support it when a number of
Islamic states allow it. Apparently, some of them do, and they use
their religion to justify it.