How Bad is Life in Your Country

When you'll risk death to get to Iran?

Taliban forces in Afghanistan meted out their brand of Sharia justice this week by executing a 19-year-old woman and 21-year-old-man for the crime of wanting to elope. The couple were shot by a firing squad before witnesses.

The couple was going to try to get to Iran but may have been turned over by their parents or neighbors.

If you follow the link Turley provides, the girl was 14 and the boy was 17. What makes this worse? They were probably turned in by their parents.

You can take your cultural relativism and shove it up your ass. This is just wrong. Yay Freedom.

Amen, Brother!

And vice versa.

Courtesy of reason.

Allah Is His Copilot

This might explain the inferiority of Arab air forces...

PALERMO (Reuters) - A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court...

The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact.

A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport.

As Jonathan Turley put it: "There is something to say for having a pilot who has nothing to look forward to in a crash situation."