Quote:I've explained this enough times already. People act all high principled and with more bravado on moral questions that are purely hypothetical and have no consequences.
So you are trying to defend these people's barbaric beliefs by insisting they they are acting "all high principled"?
So when they see "executing apostates" on the survey, they don't realise that the consequence might be executing apostates?
Quote:Surely even you wouldn't be surprised to see a large number of Australians respond "yes" to castrate convicted pedophiles in a random survey, then see that number plummet when Australians were actually asked to vote to make it a reality.
I would be surprised if there was a significant difference. Chemical castration is being seriously promoted as an option for these crimes (actual crimes, not thought crimes). However, as I keep pointing out, one of the states in Malaysia has come very close to enacting a law executing apostates. This would not have escaped people's attention, and the survey would not be the first time they have contemplated whether they support or oppose such a law.
Quote:The combined populations of Kelantan and terengganu is less than 1/20th the population of Malaysia - and they have always been a special case because of their history of being occupied by Thais.
Everything is always a special case. Like Tasmania. That does not mean we would not notice if Tasmania tried to execute people for thought crimes. The relevant difference here is that the state does not have the high percentage of non-Muslims that the rest of Malaysia does. This means that the majority of Muslims is closer to being the same thing as the majority of the population. Hence, 60% or more of the Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy, so they were able to get the laws through the state parliament. The Thais are not to blame for this. They passed laws to execute apostates because they live in a democracy and the majority of Muslims support the laws - not just in their fantasies, but in reality.
Quote:But did Muslims even "vote" to have this law? Perhaps we can apply your "elections never referendums on single issue" rule.
It was inevitable that the government policy would come to reflect the will of the majority. As I have pointed out many times, this is not the same argument as your feeble-minded insistence that a person who votes for a party must therefor support every policy that party has, and you can therefor determine the breakdown of views on an issue based on a breakdown of voting patterns and party policy.
Quote:Yes why don't you quote me insisting that.
Rather than fill up this thread with quotes - follow this link. Every post you made on the first page of this thread is you using the same BS excuse for why Muslims do not think what they say they think.
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1387754522