No pictures of baby killing and
no mention of genocide, just good old fashion chunky paint applied by great painters.
Not exact matches
As I
mention above, the issue needs to be raised to believers and non-believers alike: How can a nation
of people miss the outright hypocrisy
of using a belief system ostensibly predicated on compassion, charity and humility to argue in favour
of genocide?
In the presentation, I
mentioned that upon reading the story
of Joshua and the Battle
of Jericho for myself, I realized it was a story about
genocide, with God commanding Joshua to kill every man, woman, and child in the city for the sole purpose
of acquiring land.
One
of the best commenters to grace our site, Anymouse,
mentions below the possibility
of a
genocide of Alawites and Christians if Assad falls.
I wonder how he would feel if the introduction made
mention of the fact that Christianity has been used to support slavery, war,
genocide, inquisitions, murders, and all kinds
of injustices, including recent wars in Uganda in which children are kidnapped and forced into the «Lord's Liberation Army» by a man claiming to act on behalf
of the God
of the Bible.
There is no
mention of the history
of colonialism or neocolonialism (particularly important in understanding the Rwandan
genocide and its spill - over into the DRC), although, predictably, there are numerous references to the role
of ethnicity as a causality
of the conflict.
It is therefore not surprising thatOHCHR, after a thorough inquiry, came to the conclusion that the above -
mentioned barbaric acts against refugees constituted war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly crimes
of genocide, subject to confirmation by a competent international criminal court or tribunal.34 So far, no charge has been brought forward.
Needless to say, since it discusses the horrors Cambodian citizens endured during the
genocide, it contains some pretty intense passages, and one
of my fellow posters
mentioned finding the subject matter «difficult» and therefore hard to read about.
You may already have run across it, but I just wanted to put in a
mention for World is Witness, a project
of the U.S. Holocaust Museum to utilize satellite imagery to monitor
genocides worldwide.
It's a bit like saying, «Hitler liked dogs so he was a good man» while not
mentioning the fact that he caused the
genocide of millions
of people and WWII.