http://michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.it/ Arkansas Republican Endorses Death Penalty for Disobedient ChildrenWow! Has someone opened the doors to the insane asylum? What else explains the plethora of insane Republicans running around spouting utter batshitery - batshitery based, naturally, on the Bible? Yet another example of what passes for legitimate discourse and decency in today's utterly insane Republican Party comes in the form of Charlie Fuqua (pictured above), who is running as a Republican for State Representative in Arkansas. In a book published earlier this year, Fuqua endorses the death penalty for rebellious children and much, much more. o put it mildly, the man is a nutcase and a true example of the sickness known as fundamentalist/conservative Christianity. The Raw Story looks at Fuqua's insanity. Here are a few highlights:
In his book “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution,” published in April, former Arkansas Department of Human Services attorney Charlie Fuqua explains that he supports killing wayward kids because that’s what a Bronze Age tribe did in his favorite religious text.
“The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline,” he wrote, according to an excerpt published by The Arkansas Times. “Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellioius children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21.”
He goes on to write: “Even though this procedure would rarely be used, if it were the law of land, it would give parents authority. Children would know that their parents had authority and it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.”
Fuqua’s run is being bankrolled by established Republicans in the state, including the party itself and the House Republican Leadership PAC. Spokeswoman Katherine Vasilos told Raw Story in an email that the Republican Party of Arkansas had no plans to make financial contributions to Fuqua in the future.
Fuqua also expresses his opposition to paying minimum wage, funding public education and what he calls the “Muslim problem,” which he believes could be dealt with by expelling all the Muslims from America. He adds that prisoners who cannot be rehabilitated within two years should just be executed to save money.
Sadly, Fuqua is the real face of today's GOP and its horrible Christofascist base. How someone as obviously deranged as Fuqua ever received the party nomination is telling of what has become of the GOP base both in Arkansas and elsewhere (Believe me, the GOP base Virginia is little better). Needless to say, I suspect Fuqua would support the summary execution of LGBT citizens.
Taliban Shot Pakistani Teenage Girl for Supporting Girls’ RightsMeanwhile, the Islamic equivalents of Charlie Fuqua and his Neanderthal knuckle draggers in the Republican Party are putting into action precisely what Fuqua advocates: the Taliban shot and seriously wounded a 14 year old girl in Pakistan for advocating for education of girls. The Christofascists always take offense, but if they look at the Taliban and Islamic extremists, they are actually looking at a mirror image of themselves: groups that are fighting against modernity and clinging to a perverted version of religion based on writings of authors who were nothing short of ignorant by modern standards. The Washington Post looks at the shooting of ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai. Here are some article excerpts:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A 14-year-old Pakistani student who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls barred from school by the Taliban was critically wounded Tuesday by a gunman who boarded her school bus, asked for her by name, aimed his pistol at her head and fired, officials said.
The Pakistani Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack on ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai, who gained notice in early 2009 when she wrote a diary about Taliban atrocities under a pen name for the BBC’s Urdu service. Yousafzai lives in Mingora, a city in the scenic northwestern Swat Valley, where Taliban insurgents imposed harsh Islamic law for two years before being routed by a major military operation in May 2009.
Tuesday’s daylight attack demonstrated the Taliban’s continued ability to infiltrate the area, which adjoins Pakistan’s insurgency-plagued tribal belt.
Many Pakistanis view Yousafzai, who also promoted literacy and peace, as a symbol of hope in a country long beset by violence and despair. In 2011, the Pakistani government awarded her a national peace prize and 1 million rupees ($10,500).
She also was a finalist last year for the International Children’s Peace Prize, awarded by a Dutch organization that lauded her bravery in standing up for girls’ education rights amid rising fundamentalism when few others in Pakistan would do so.
Yousafzai was flown by helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar, where doctors on Wednesday said they removed a bullet lodged near her spine. The girl’s condition was improving, but officials said she had not yet regained consciousness.
Fundamentalist religion remains one of the biggest threats to peace and stability in the world today. Yet it is to religious extremists little different from the Taliban in terms of their hatred of others - the Christian Taliban - to whom Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (and George Allen here in Virginia) have sold their souls for political gain. These religious extremists are frightening and need to be driven into the political wilderness rather than embraced by the Republican Party.
Posted by Michael-in-Norfolk at Wednesday, October 10, 2012 No comments: Links to this post
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