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THE OFFICIAL PISSED OFF THREAD! 5-Sep-2010 At 7:39:09 PM damon

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On 5/09/2010 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>It takes a bit to piss me off, however I saw on SBS TV news tonight that a woman
>in Iran, sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery, recently had
>a photograph of herself published in a London newspaper. It was a photo
>of her face and because she was not wearing the burka (sp?) covering it,
>she has been given an additional sentence of 99 lashes with a (cane or
>whip)?
>
>The little I have heard of the case indicates that the adultery charge
>is questionable, however regardless of the morality / lack of it, this/these
>punishments are just plain wrong (in my white-anglo-saxon-western-way-of-thinking).
>
>This pisses me off.
>I now understand better where racism, or at least religeous-ism can begin.
>: (

Archaic bastards, I feel you mate.