I love it when a leader, any leader, thinks critically.
“I find myself imagining what would happen if one day there was a country in the world that would stone a man because he was cheating. Nothing justifies the state taking someone’s life. Only God gives life and only He should take it away.”
A quote from Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after offering Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (an Iranian women convicted of “adultery while being married” and sentenced to death by stoning), asylum.
Source: Guardian.
It sounds like common sense to me. It’s a wonder more people don’t just stop and consider what if this were happening to me more often.
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You’d think a few world leaders or even dictators would use it eh?
Now, how would it help anything to double, maybe quadruple, the number of stonings?
If Iran really wants to cut down on the number of adulterers and adulteresses, they should shut down the internet. Big old blogosphere of betrayal is what this is.
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I think they’ve already done that.
The Brazilian President isn’t making any friends in the middle east today, but he is acquiring a lot of new wives from there so I guess all in all it’s a wash.
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I don’t think they marry many in Brasil polygamy is illegal and they are primarily Roman Catholic though Lula has stood up to the church in many instances…
I love figuring out if the commenters understand your sarcasm.
Rio de Janeiro here I come.
Me too.
Funny gills I just told somebody last night about five people in the world get mine and Cooper….
My comment: if more men felt like that and acted like the Brazilian president. We have an incredible country with a President who is supposed to be “progressive….”
He is a fairly progressive and despite socialist rumblings I rather admire him…people who risk looking like fools usually care more about the situations than the protocol and that I can respect.
Gills is right it’s fun to watch how much of this goes over people’s heads. Not this one in particular but many…….
Despite everything I have to give it to Lula, but wonder at his motivation. Cynical of me I know.
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My answers is in the above comment.
For one day? I don’t know. The thing that makes me scratch my head the most about history is how an oppressed group that becomes majoritized will immedeately revisit the hardships they experienced upon the new underclass. Among those who defend double standards, I don’t think a mere glimpse of oppression would change many minds.
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I missed something. But that is not unusal
I just don’t think people who would support regimes that stone female adulterers but not male would have their minds changed by even a year of male adulterers being stoned. I think they’d just blame the wives for reporting the husbands.
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I thought they had let that women go. Guess not.
I bet the motivation doesn’t matter to that women or her family. Just as the underlying history or tradition, tribal politics or motivation of Save Darfur does not matter not to those slaughtered in Darfur or Rwanda.
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that is how I feel when I am not looking at things from the standpoint of how something can really be solved.
this blog makes me smarter, or so I like to think.
You win the titling game for sure.
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Oh, the titling game.
I wanted to express appreciation of the Verizon tale.
Regarding Lula, Ahmadinejad’s government dissed him big time.
Let’s hope Ahmadinejad and the oppressive regime he proxies for one day fall…
You are the title queen, Miss Cooper. And yet, there’s so much more that I hesistate to call you that lest you be pigeon holed.
You’re like Pasteur. Sure, you’ve got your Pasteurization, but you’ve also got rabies, and a lot of other stuff I can’t remember right now.
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“Sure, you’ve got your Pasteurization, but you’ve also got rabies, and a lot of other stuff I can’t remember right now.”
Vilification of the masses ….
Kudos to him, despite it not working so far, even if there is alternate motive to his madness.
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I think he has always been of this nature.
Ipanema is in Brazil?
I learn much here. How do you know these things?
I remember now. Your love of Bossa Nova.
Wow sweet of you to remember my fondness for Bossa Nova.
Guess Lula decided to throw a grenade at him for that one.
Truth stings even when you don’t put any stock in it.
Don’t worry, I know attempted murder is never funny.
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No, especially when it’s not successful. They said it didn’t happen anyway…
But America is ordained by God. So we can pretty much do whatever we want.
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Aargh! I’m hearing Getz/Gilberto in my head, but picturing Lula in speedo walking on beach!
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That must be horrifying…
This blog may not make me smarter but it makes me a better smart-ass.
:-)
I somehow doubt I can take credit/blame for your smartass-ness.