The news is that the Tripoli Six have been sentenced — a second time — to be killed for crimes they could not possibly have committed. PZ had this to say, in part:
No medicine, no vaccinations, no surgeons—leeches and lancets and the usual contrivances of the pre-eighteenth century world should be all they get. That is my curse on Libya. The sad thing is that many of these deluded fools would consider it a blessing.
Let’s make this totally clear. Just as fundamentalist Christianity is supported and believed in only by fucking morons, fundamentalist Islam is a religion of inbred shitbrains.
Those who trumpet the teaching of creationism over the fact of evolution, those who favor the inculcation of the Decalogue into children, those who seek to abrogate the right to terminate a pregnancy or the right to marry whom any of us will — you are trying to turn the US into Lybia.
We are tired of suffering for your stupidity. We are tired of bleeding for your wars. We are tired of you, of all of you. May Islam and Christianity both fuck the hell off and leave us all in peace.
9:40 on January 4th, 2007
[...] I’m not sure if Hussein fell into that category or not, so I’m not sure how I feel about the death sentence handed down to him, nor that it was carried out. In light of the re-sentencing of the Tripoli Six to death, and given the undeniable fact that Bush has committed crimes against Islam for which he could also be sentenced to death, I wonder. Is capital punishment always valid? Certainly not. Is it something that might even be subject to relativity? I think surely. Is it, therefore, something we should apply with extreme caution? [...]