The wickedness continues?

[cee-dee]

http://news.sky.com/story/1434886/is-fighters-destroy-3000-year-old-artefacts

We've seen something similar before during the era of Pol Pot in Cambodia?

http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia1.html

In Cambodia, all intellectuals and educated people were murdered, books and information plus all connections with the historic past were destroyed but instead of religious fanatics, the Khmer Rouge were anti-religion of any sort.

If the IS beheadings and brutal treatment of non IS people wasn't bad enough, now we see gangs of I-Khansa going round the streets of places they control and throwing acid in the faces of women who are not veiled from head to foot. Can it get any worse?

[cee-dee]

***WOW***, all those views but no comments?

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@cee-dee wrote:

***WOW***, all those views but no comments?

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Smaller number than have looked at the thread about electricians 🙂

[**caution**opinion_ahead]

Can it get any worse?  Yes.  Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds.  

[upthecreekyetagain]

No need to go as far back as Pol Pot - in the 1990s the genocide in Bosnia saw at least 300,000 Muslims killed by Christian Serbs and over 100,000 Muslim women systematically raped.

[cee-dee]

Firstly, thank you very much Alan.

UTCYA, doncha mean "electicians"

[lhasa.two]

I find so much in the world quite depressing really. Every bit of news -well almost - is about murders, **bleep**, scams etc in THIS country, let alone what's going on in the rest of the world.

You could add North Korea to the list where so many are starving and if they are not starving they are in prison. India with it's attitude to women, ditto Saudi and many other countries which have a fundamentalist religious base.

The world is turning quite savage with many threats to our own democracy from outside forces. I think people in this country should complain less about what they have to put up with when you see what goes on in other parts of the world at the moment. 

[cee-dee]

Very true, compared to the places you mention, we have terrific freedom.

How would women in this country like to be treated and regarded like this:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31698154

It's a long page so please read all of it. The attitude is quite shocking?

[lhasa.two]

Well that's precisley the attitude which prevails in India and call themselves a democracy, though not everyone thinks that way thank goodness. Democracy and equal rights for women doesn't mean anything if these young men live in remote villages and small towns who can barely read or write.

Unfortunately, those kind of shocking attitudes are sometimes brought over here particularly in the lesser educated.

Also the Pakistani problem regarding this recent r a p e case with under age girls, and is by no means the first case. It's just dreadful and something needs to be done about it, preferably starting in schools to educate the young boys that it's just not acceptable. They need to be taught the laws on equal rights here, which were hard won not so long ago.

The other issue that needs more legal action is FGM, which although illegal here, is still practised but never - well one case I think - brought to book. Women perform this on girls as well as doctors who are sympathetic to the 'culture' of it. The latter need to be struck off if ever they are caught.

It's going to be a long road to equality world wide and probably won't happen in my lifetime, sadly.

[**bustysinclaire**]

I know some are not happy when I post in reply to these type of OP's but if you feel there is something else on offer or would like to see a better future for all please have a look at the contents of this link.

It really is very encouraging and shows mankind has a good future.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/view-future-tract/view-the-future/

[cee-dee]

You're free to post what you like but don't expect many to agree with you.

However, over here you won't be beheaded, stoned or burned to death for your beliefs.

At the root of nearly all conflicts in the World are beliefs in one god or another, each protagonist insisting they're "right" and everyone else is "wrong" so therefore their fight is "just".

The only thing that's "right" is to realise that all this mumbo-jumbo belongs way back in the past and should be replaced by equality and decency.

[lhasa.two]

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@**bustysinclaire** wrote:

I know some are not happy when I post in reply to these type of OP's but if you feel there is something else on offer or would like to see a better future for all please have a look at the contents of this link.

It really is very encouraging and shows mankind has a good future.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/view-future-tract/view-the-future/

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Hello busty, your post is not a problem for me, it's your right to say what you think. I've always thought  you to be patient and polite even when sometimes the metaphorical stones are thrown at you! 

Thank you for posting your link but I'm not of any religious persuasion since a much younger person, feeling quite strongly that collectively religions have been at the root of many wars, not just today but historically. Of course some of the teachings within many religions are a basis for a good moral guide, regretfully that doesn't seem to be so in this current caliphate of a group like IS.

[charhawl]

Ooops lol

[cee-dee]

More wickedness:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31760656

[upthecreekyetagain]

 visited Cardiff a couple of weeks ago, (to watch Brighton play out a boring 0-0 draw ), and decided to visit Cardiff Castle.  In the mid 18th century the Marquess of Bute, John Stuart, converted part of the castle to living accommodation, he also employed Capability Brown to landscape the grounds.  When he 'moved in' he realised the castle walls were blocking his view so had them demolished!

About the only part of the castle which is the original 11th century construction is the inner keep.  The rest is no more real than something in a theme park.

[cee-dee]

You're not wrong. Many old castles came to be regarded as a convenient quarry.

However, we're in the 21st century now, but the people destroying those ancient artifacts are still in the fourteenth century!

[upthecreekyetagain]

We're all in the 21st century but it is only the minority of the world's population that benefits from the advancements we take for granted in this country.

The majority of the world's population live in conditions that we would closer associate with the 16th century - it is hardly surprising that many act in a way we find medieval.

[cee-dee]

They live in such conditions by choice.

They want the modern guns, phones and vehicles but they won't get up off their "seats" to dig trenches for drainage or to lay water pipes or even improve their roads. As to clearing up their rubbish and disposing of it properly, UMUZBJOKIN.

[cee-dee]

More spiteful destruction:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31779484