Religious Idiocy

Last Saturday's paper had three short articles in it of a religious nature and yesterday's paper had one. In the first one Amish leader, Samuel Mullet Sr., was found guilty of being the ringleader in a series of hair and beard cutting attacks against fellow members of his faith that defied or denounced his hold over the splinter group he started in 1995. So much for the image of peaceful Amish people. Story two hails from Kano, Nigeria where gunmen belonging to a radical Islamic sect shot and killed at least nine women that were taking part in a polio vaccination drive. Apparently clerics there once claimed that the vaccines were part of a Western plot to sterilize young girls. This is similar to the statements Michelle Bachman made that the HPV vaccine caused mental retardation. Story three takes place in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea where 20 year old mother, Kepari Leniata was accused of sorcery by relatives of a six year old boy who died in a hospital. She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused with gasoline, and then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash. Despite happening in broad daylight and in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses, no suspects have been picked up yet. Apparently, witchcraft is often blamed for unexplained misfortunes and sorcery has traditionally been countered by sorcery. Lately, however, responses to allegations of witchcraft have become increasingly violent in recent years. Our last tale comes from Egypt where women protesters and journalists walking in Tahrir Square have been sexually assaulted by gangs of men. It seems that Egyptian society still isn't ready to grant equality to women. In late January, the United Nations had received 25 reports of assaults on women in Tahrir Square in a single week - 19 in a single day. Earlier this month, a public gang rape of two young women was caught on video. The articles author, Reem Abdellatif, was subjected to uninvited remarks about her breasts and body while moving through crowds of men. Some men and self proclaimed Islamists won't look women in the eye because they believe looking at a woman's face is sinful and invites sexual desire. These are just some of the atrocities committed by so called believers. They get their bowels in an uproar whenever something offends their delicate religious sensibilities and they lash out with violence. These moronic twits still believe in sorcery and miracles. Some followers of Islam are apparently unable to control their sexual urges to the point where the simple act of looking at a woman's face gives them terminal boners. And instead of facing up to their own inadequacies, they blame the women and gang rape them. So much for following the Quran.