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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (705563)	3/24/2013 10:50:50 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578184

SHARIA IN "MODERATE" TUNISIA: MUSLIM CLERIC CALLS FOR THE STONING DEATH OF TOPLESS GIRL Her parents took her to the psych ward because under the sharia, this girl is mentally ill. She is crazy enough to believe her body is her own. Please sign this petition to help save this young Muslim girl. Top Tunisian Muslim cleric says topless girl needs stoning The 19-year-old activist, identified only as Amina, posted on the Femen-Tunisian Facebook page a topless picture of herself with the words "Fk your morals" written across her chest. Another controversial image followed, of the woman smoking a cigarette, baring her breasts, with the Arabic written across her chest: "My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour”. One of the pictures posted on the Femen Tunisia site Tunisian newspaper Kapitalis quoted the Wahabi Salafi preacher Almi Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: "The young lady should be punished according to sharia, with 80 to 100 lashes, but [because of] the severity of the act she has committed, she deserves be stoned to death. "Her act could bring about an epidemic. It could be contagious and give ideas to other women.** It is therefore necessary to isolate [the incident]. I wish her to be healed." If she committed the offence in Tunisia, Amina could be punished by up to two years in prison and a fine of 100 to 1,000 dinars [between £40 and £400], local media said. A petition and an international day of action on April 4 to highlight the threats against Amina have been organised by activists. More than 15,600 people have signed a petition calling for those who have threatened Amina's life to be prosecuted. An open letter calling for an International Day to Defend Amina has been signed by many feminist and atheist activists. Jihadwatch has this: Sharia in action in Tunisia: Muslim cleric calls for the murder of topless girl Sheikh Alami Adel heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Posting toplesspictures: vice. Murdering a girl who posts topless pictures: virtue. "‘Quarantine her!’ Top Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning," from Al Arabiya, March 23 (thanks to Voice of the Copts): A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be “quarantined” and stoned to death before she starts “an epidemic.”Tunisian newspaper AssabahNews quoted Salafi preacher Alami Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: “According to God’s law, she deserves 80 to 100 lashes, but what she committed is worth much more than that. She deserves to be stoned to death and she must be quarantined because what she did is an epidemic.” “She is like someone suffering from a serious and contagious illness and she must be secluded and treated,” he added. The young Amina, who is part of a feminist movement and group called FEMEN can be seen smoking a cigarette topless with Arabic words written across her chest in black that reads in English “My body belongs to me.” FEMEN is a Ukrainian based feminist group that gathers women together in Europe in topless protests in support of women’s rights. Amina has been delivered by her parents to a psychiatric hospital in Tunis, according to reports received by FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko in Paris and reported by the U.S. based magazine the Atlantic. Tunisian media said that if Amina committed the offence in Tunisia, she could be punished by up to two years in prison and be given a fine between $60 and $600. A petition and an international day of action on April 4 to highlight the threats against Amina have been organized by activists. More than 10,000 people have signed the petition that called for those who threatened Amina’s life to be prosecuted. On Thursday reports FEMEN’s Facebook account was hacked emerged. The page had reportedly been infiltrated with videos and pictures on the site being replaced by verses from the Koran. “Thanks to God we have hacked this immoral page and the best is yet to come,” read one message signed by “al-Angour,” an apparent hacker. FEMEN has released a statement condemning “barbarian threats of the Islamists about the necessity of reprisals against the Tunisian activist Amina.” “We are afraid for her life and we call on women to fight for their freedom against religious atrocities” it added. Last month, FEMEN brought together Iranian women in Sweden, who took to the streets of Stockholm demonstrating against the Hijab (Islamic headscarf). And yet Western feminists don't dare stand up against Sharia misogyny. That would be "Islamophobic."

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (705563)	3/24/2013 10:51:16 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578184

And yet Western feminists don't dare stand up against Sharia misogyny. That would be "Islamophobic."

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (705563)	3/24/2013 12:58:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578184

High capacity is an issue of the magazine, not the firearm, at least assuming a detachable magazine (or a modification of the gun to use one). Archaic weapons can kill unarmed people very effectively. Modern weapons are more effective for militia type purposes, to support the government in extreme situations, or deter and oppose it in even more extreme situations should they occur. But since the archaic weapons (and definitely all sorts of modern weapons that no one calls "assault weapons") can be highly effective at killing unarmed victims, and since so few people are killed by military looking semi-auto weapons, there is little reason to ban them as a category. There would be essentially no benefit in doing so. At very close ranges a shotgun is more effective, at long ranges a hunting rifle is more effective. If the criminal wants to hide the fact that he's armed as long as possible a pistol works better for him than a rifle. There really isn't any uniquely deadly ability about semi-auto low caliber rifles (weather they have a wooden finish or black plastic, whether they have bayonet lugs or flash suppressors, none of that matters very much). They are slightly better for sustained operations at short to moderately long ranges then many other weapons, so they fit better for militia purposes, but even if they didn't that wouldn't be a reason to ban them,. You don't need some special utility to not ban something, you need justification to ban it. There isn't any reason to ban semi-auto low caliber rifles of any appearance.