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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
I think that we too easily over-look the gruesome and obscene in our own society, but are very ready to jump on those same situations in other cultures. What gives our society the right to claim the moral high ground over another?
While it is terrible to have someone killed for carrying the wrong type of currency, you must consider the situation. This is a country at war, and carrying American currency could very well be a sign of dealing with the enemy and taking money for information. What would happen if an American soldier was discovered with a bunch of Iranian currency on him? I think the "rendition" of his story would be quite "extreme" as well. He'd probably be better off dead.
The Taliban are certainly carrying out an organized theologically based terror campaign, and go to extremes to make their points (as does Islam itself in many ways), but I wonder where all this indignation and outrage was when a pizza joint in Dallas was "stoned" by the nation for taking "pesos" as payment for their products? Is an organized economic terror campaign not as wrong a similar theologic campaign? Just floating that out there for conjecture.
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Ah yes the moral equivalency police right on cue, spoken from high up in their ivory tower. Thou should not judge less ye be judged. Thou without sin cast the first stone. Sounds like something Jesus would say, would it not?