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Another black eye for Islam as well?

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The humane thing to do would have been to waterboard her. I guess these Muslims are just too barbaric.

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Is this an attempt to equivocate US actions of water-boarding with Saudi Actions in the story?

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It's a sarcastic attempt to discern from adios why the Saudi actions in the story are "a black eye for Islam". When governments run by Muslims do bad things to people, it's a black eye for the religion. When the American government does bad things to people, is it a condemnation of Christianity? Most of the leaders in our government are Christian.

Okay, so the expected right-wing bigot response here is: "zomg but wait, these laws are borne out of Wahhabism; American rule of law isn't dictated by Biblical code -- zomg the inhumanity of Islam!!!!!"

But again, it's nothing but standard demagoguery: find extremist elements of said religion, find when they do a bad thing, say bad thing is black eye on whole religion. Or instead of outright saying it, just wonder aloud and see if the [censored] sticks. "Black eye for Wahhabism" or "black eye for Saudi government" is one thing and obviously true, "black eye for Islam" is just standard right-wing baiting.

Cue adios backtracking, John Killduff/MMMMMM two-thousand word essays on the evils of Islam.