Nah, the religious fanatics should all just move to a mountain top monastery like they did in ancient times. They'd be much happier there.

Conservatism is a global plague. Pacifism has never worked to cure this disease. Until the normal people rise up and do the horrific dirty work needed to erase this disease, it will continue to infect and kill.

The cure is not clean, but history has proven that conservatism is a fatal disease when left untreated.

I was heartened to hear about the people keeping up the public opposition of the clerics, beyond knocking off their turbans. I hope that the clerics understand that their time is passing and that they are shaking in their sandals with the very realistic fear that they will continue to get randomly gunned down by the people anytime an opportunity presents it. Fuck theocratic Islam and all other exclusivist religions.

Even the Gulanist movement from Turkey, who likes to put on a friendly face to the western world, is exclusivist -- if pressed, their real opinions come through their strategic friendly face da'wah, e.g., it is not hard to get them to call Sufis (one of the few mystical/not-exclusivist islamic groups) heretics or "not real muslims."

Start by protesting religion in your own country. Religion is bad everywhere. If some crazy groups want to believe in fairies, that's ok, just do it in your home and don't bring it out of there.

What can anyone do to free them?

Arm them.

Lashes is for the lucky ones.

The less lucky ones get hanged. And if you think hanged as in a quick drop and neck snap, no. They hang you slowly with a crane so that you suffer more, that is required by ~~Darth vader~~ the ayatollah...

Fuck everything about those religious zealot nut cases

It's the age where in many muslim countries, if you say something even mildly critical about the ruling class or the priests or Islam, there's a very high risk of being executed for it.

In Muslim countries it's always the middle ages

cancer of all modern religions

Meh, they're all pretty bad imo

Modern Religion is an oxymoron

Oh none from me, though I'd pool just about every other religion in with that. They're all shit in their own ways. The concept of a modern religion also makes no sense, by their nature religions are archaic power tools used to control the masses against their individual will via their collective will.

every religious-led country is a country of barbarians.

it is the human collective absolving themselves of responsibility in liue of some greater power

religion is a transmissible poison that must be removed, like cigarettes

I thought 74 Lashes were clearly lethal?

AFAIK there is nothing humane about such a sentence, on the contrary, it can mean slow and painful death.

I just tried to find this out, in most muslim countries, the too many lashes are spread out over several times, to avoid death. A limit is for example 50 lashes per time in Saudi Arabia.

Her back. It was a female engineer protesting being forced to wear a hijab.