Religious Extremism - A Glimpse of What the Christofascists Want to Bring to America

If one wants to see the type of evil and religious based insanity that the Christian Taliban would like to bring to America, look no farther than what their Islamic cousins are doing in other parts of the world.  A case in point is the plight of a Sudanese woman (pictured above) who is currently planning to appeal an Islamic judge’s decision that she be flogged with 100 lashes and then be hanged for marrying a Christian man and converting to Christianity from Islam.  This woman's situation is yet another example of the fact that religion - especially fundamentalist religion - is one of the most vile and dangerous forces in the world today.  It needs to be eradicated.  And the sooner  the better whether overseas or in pockets of hate and extremism such as the Family Research Council and here in Virginia, at the Family Foundation. While this instances involves Islam, there is in the end analysis little difference from Christian and Islamic extremists.  ABC News looks at the horror being done in Sudan in the name of religion.  Here are excerpts:

Lawyers for a pregnant Sudanese woman plan to appeal an Islamic judge’s decision that she be flogged with 100 lashes and then be hanged for marrying a Christian man and converting.

Amnesty International and Western embassies are expressing alarm over the harsh sentence meted out to Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, who is eight months pregnant.

So far the only concession granted by the Islamic court is to wait until Ishag gives birth before carrying out the sentence.

Amnesty International called the court’s ruling “truly abhorrent.” The organization’s Sudan researcher Manar Idriss said that “adultery and apostasy are acts which should not be considered crimes at all. It is flagrant breach of international human rights law.”

Western embassies in Sudan including the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands also echoing that sentiment issued a joint statement expressing “deep concern” about the case and urged Sudan to respect the right to freedom of religion.

Amal Habany, a political activist in support of women’s rights,  said “The court has no appearance of justice or respect for freedom of choice in ones beliefs, personally and individually.”
Despite the outrcy, the Islamic court has been unmoved.

The judge told Ishaq, “We gave you three days to recant, but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death.” Officially her crime is apostasy.

Ishaq replied, “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.”

The judge also ruled that her marriage to a Christian man was invalid and not recognized under Islamic law, which means that she had committed adultery. He ordered her to be flogged for that alleged offense.

After the sentence was decreed, the prosecutor’s spokesman Ahmad Hassan told the Associated Press that “they were given ample time to prove their innocence, but I for one believe in upholding our traditions and customs as Sudanese.”

As I have said before, a world devoid of religion would likely be a far better place.  Over the course of history, the true fruits of religion has been hatred, bigotry and an incalculable number of needless deaths through wars of religion and religious kangaroo courts such as the one in Sudan.  It is far past time that America and other civilized nations cut off ALL aid and support of any kind to vile nations like the Sudan, Uganda and a majority of Muslim nations..