Comments on: Journalist Jailed in Iraq for Writing Story on Homosexuality http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/journalist-jailed-in-iraq-for-writing-story-on-homosexuality/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:48:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sally http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/journalist-jailed-in-iraq-for-writing-story-on-homosexuality/#comment-30121 Sally Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:46:52 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=6059#comment-30121 Okay folks, I was being sarcastic! Guess I didn't make it obivous Okay folks, I was being sarcastic! Guess I didn’t make it obivous

]]> By: Mike Spindell http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/journalist-jailed-in-iraq-for-writing-story-on-homosexuality/#comment-30114 Mike Spindell Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:38:11 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=6059#comment-30114 Democracy has nothing to do with this story. The power of religious fundamentalism/extremism is the driving force. Many Americans would no doubt smugly refer to this story as an example of what's wrong with Islam. However, any who doubt the fact that if the "religious" Right gained power in the US they would perpetrate equally absurd rulings. Fully fundamentalist Christian, Jews, Hindus, etc. if given power would use it to suppress any views they deem blasphemous or heretical. It has happened all too often in the past. The solution is the strict separation of religion from government. This is something constitutionally guaranteed to us, but throughout our history has been under attack by zealots. The bitter irony is that their zealotry, while disguised as piety, is really driven by ego and/or a shaky personal faith. Trul pious and religious people are concerned more with the correctness of their own behavior and the Golden Rule, than with trying to regulate their fellow citizens actions. A believer whose faith can be shaken by another persons actions, is not a true believer at all. Democracy has nothing to do with this story. The power of religious
fundamentalism/extremism is the driving force. Many Americans would no doubt smugly refer to this story as an example of what’s wrong with Islam. However, any who doubt the fact that if the “religious” Right gained power in the US they would perpetrate equally absurd rulings. Fully fundamentalist Christian, Jews, Hindus, etc. if given power would use it to suppress any views they deem blasphemous or heretical.

It has happened all too often in the past. The solution is the strict separation of religion from government. This is something
constitutionally guaranteed to us, but throughout our history has been under attack by zealots. The bitter irony is that their zealotry, while disguised as piety, is really driven by ego and/or
a shaky personal faith. Trul pious and religious people are concerned more with the correctness of their own behavior and the Golden Rule, than with trying to regulate their fellow citizens actions. A believer whose faith can be shaken by another persons actions, is not a true believer at all.

]]> By: rcampbell http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/journalist-jailed-in-iraq-for-writing-story-on-homosexuality/#comment-30107 rcampbell Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:57:06 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=6059#comment-30107 Maybe if they became a democratic nation Mr Bush is being quite vocal these days about his pride of being responsible for making Iraq into just that--a democratic nation. Oops. Maybe if they became a democratic nation

Mr Bush is being quite vocal these days about his pride of being responsible for making Iraq into just that–a democratic nation. Oops.

]]> By: C. Everett Kook http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/journalist-jailed-in-iraq-for-writing-story-on-homosexuality/#comment-30100 C. Everett Kook Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:49:58 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=6059#comment-30100 Sally said: Maybe if they became a democratic nation, he wouldn’t have been jailed. Lots of folks have been imprisoned in Democratic countries for stuff they wrote about, right here in this country(USA) in fact. Sally said: Maybe if they became a democratic nation, he wouldn’t have been jailed.

Lots of folks have been imprisoned in Democratic countries for stuff they wrote about, right here in this country(USA) in fact.

]]> By: Sally http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/journalist-jailed-in-iraq-for-writing-story-on-homosexuality/#comment-30088 Sally Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:38:21 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=6059#comment-30088 Maybe if they became a democratic nation, he wouldn't have been jailed. He only would have made some people angry and offended them. Then we'd have to hear people like Rosie O'Donnell defend him, along with the ACLU. They'd back him up and who really wants to hear Rosie O'Donnell say anything at all? Maybe if they became a democratic nation, he wouldn’t have been jailed.

He only would have made some people angry and offended them. Then we’d have to hear people like Rosie O’Donnell defend him, along with the ACLU. They’d back him up and who really wants to hear Rosie O’Donnell say anything at all?

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