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Thread #136372   Message #3562438
Posted By: Jim Carroll
29-Sep-13 - 06:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christian Persecution
Subject: RE: BS: Christian Persecution
Mike:
As direct a reply to your meaningless question as I can manage:
No - there aren't such states, but there have been in the past and given the right circumstances and the 'right' people at the helm, there could quite easily be in the future.
With Islam, we are dealing with Reigeo-feudalistic societies who are hopefully moving away from that position and (hopefully) taking on the best the rest of the world has to offer.
The only way this will happen fully is to encourage them and not saddle them with their history - this applies particularly to those who have taken the great leap of emigration.
Our own 'civilised' smugness needs to be balanced by the facts that the last witchcraft trial in Britain took place in 1941 (and Helen Duncan has yet to be pardoned), and the last Magdalene Laundry closed in Ireland as long ago as 1996.
Jim Carroll