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Hoisted on Their Own Petard

Via Al-Muhajabah: Amina Lawal's conviction has been overturned by a judge with enough on the ball to throw the Quran right back at the people who twisted it in the first place. I mean, if you're going to abide by a literal interpretation of a holy book in order to achieve your sick misogynist power trip in the first place, you have to take your lumps when someone else uses that same method against you. I admit I don't know much about Sharia law, but its extreme practitioners smack of the same sort of woman-hating pick-and-choose hypocrisy as most other religious extremists, and the world would be far better off without these people in any sort of positions of power. And that includes the Knesset and the Republican Party.