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You realize that this and worse (actual death penalty for the wrong religion) is quite common, right? All across northern Africa and southern Asia, particularly
by tropo 8y ago
You realize that this and worse (actual death penalty for the wrong religion) is quite common, right? All across northern Africa and southern Asia, particularly where they meet around the Middle East, it is totally normal to take far more extreme measures. Until the Chinese can go preach atheism in Mecca without fear of decapitation, they don't seem to be all that extreme.
- Ozzie_osman 8y agoI don't think that's true. I'm no fan of authoritarian regimes, and the middle east has plenty, but I'm not sure there's anything of this magnitude ANYWHERE in the world right now. Maybe the Rohingya. A Chinese going to Mecca to preach atheism is very different than a Uighur going to a mosque in their town or reading the Quran at home. And we're talking hundreds of thousands.