In Egypt, we have a celebration of the mercy of Islam in the sentencing of over six hundred people to death at once. Muslims may talk of many things but, as the inventors of sharia law, mercy would be a surprising topic, definitely not in the context of one of the most beastly inventions in history and that does include the Ebola virus and Communist purges. (AP: Egypt sentences 683 to death in another mass trial)
Now what twists this situation out of all possible recognition is that Egypt is, nominally, a secular state and the ones being mass-murdered in this example are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an outfit so cleverly backed previously by the U.S. in that travesty of an Arab Spring. No, I didn't flip as regulars may recall I said it was a travesty at the time.
However
Not to be outdone
Oklahoma gives us the most hideous botching of an execution ever. Ohio did this some months ago when it took an inordinate (i.e. well over twenty minutes) to execute someone. In Oklahoma, it took over forty minutes and the prisoner finally died not from the drugs but from a heart attack. During that time he was seen writhing and in the middle of it he sat up to say something is wrong. (USA Today: Okla. killer dies after botched execution)
This execution was such a disgrace that it was closed off to witnesses about ten minutes after it started. The only positive thing to that is it shows there is at least a tiny wisp of shame left in the people who do this awful thing.
Please spare me any discussion of what a filthy excuse for a human this fellow was. We know this already. Most of the people who come up for execution (minus the four percent acknowledged to be innocent) are vile animals who only take the shape of humans. Nevertheless, don't even waste my time telling me it's God's justice to behave just the same as they in taking them out of the world. It is wrong when Muslims do it and it's wrong when Christians do it.
I'm also not interested in abortion in this context. That matter can be reviewed as appropriate but mixing it into a discussion of something else is not a tactic I will entertain.
Now what twists this situation out of all possible recognition is that Egypt is, nominally, a secular state and the ones being mass-murdered in this example are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an outfit so cleverly backed previously by the U.S. in that travesty of an Arab Spring. No, I didn't flip as regulars may recall I said it was a travesty at the time.
However
Not to be outdone
Oklahoma gives us the most hideous botching of an execution ever. Ohio did this some months ago when it took an inordinate (i.e. well over twenty minutes) to execute someone. In Oklahoma, it took over forty minutes and the prisoner finally died not from the drugs but from a heart attack. During that time he was seen writhing and in the middle of it he sat up to say something is wrong. (USA Today: Okla. killer dies after botched execution)
This execution was such a disgrace that it was closed off to witnesses about ten minutes after it started. The only positive thing to that is it shows there is at least a tiny wisp of shame left in the people who do this awful thing.
Please spare me any discussion of what a filthy excuse for a human this fellow was. We know this already. Most of the people who come up for execution (minus the four percent acknowledged to be innocent) are vile animals who only take the shape of humans. Nevertheless, don't even waste my time telling me it's God's justice to behave just the same as they in taking them out of the world. It is wrong when Muslims do it and it's wrong when Christians do it.
I'm also not interested in abortion in this context. That matter can be reviewed as appropriate but mixing it into a discussion of something else is not a tactic I will entertain.
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