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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by djrogers on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @11:59AM (#11863129)
There is however a significant difference between legal prosecution supported by the government, and religious zealotry. Perhaps not to the victim, but as a society it does matter.
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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by tim333 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:22PM (#11863875)
That seems unlikely in the UK at any rate. Also I'm not sure there are killings for apostasy in Europe. Saudi Arabia maybe - they sentanced this guy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar...

but can you name anyone killed for apostasy in Europe?

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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by ever1 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @12:48PM (#11863587)
source ?
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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by briandear on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:24PM (#11863891)
Downvoting links to requested sources that support the claim of cover ups in Cologne? Ridiculousness. Would a Guardian link have been upvoted?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/tensions-rise-...

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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by dang on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:36PM (#11864467)
You're presumably being downvoted because you changed the subject to the most guaranteed political, racial, and religious flamewar there is these days. That's exactly the wrong place to take a thread on Hacker News. This place is for thoughtful discussion, not political agitation, and if the Venn diagram of those two has anything in it at all, it's at most a sliver.

Agitated political discussions always turn into the same thing: ever angrier and more grandiose restatements of pre-existing positions, with no hope of arriving at the truth, and poison for the collegial atmosphere we're trying for here.

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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by AgentIcarus on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:10PM (#11863780)
You're being downvoted because you're wrong on a "Europe" level.
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Re:The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland by briandear on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:17PM (#11863836)
You're being downvoted because your comment suggests that Muslim immigrants are being protected from by certain governments against charges of violence. If it were local Catholic people who were having their criminal activity obscured for political purposes, then you would be upvoted. I get your point: many European governments refuse to accurately characterise criminal acts committed among Muslim refugees because they have a vested interest in keeping the citizens from having a complete picture of the effects of refugee policies in Europe.

Spending 5 minutes in Calais would make it very clear that the problem isn't as tidy and harmless as certain leftist groups would have you believe.

So you're being downvoted because there appears to be a leftist bent among many HN readers and suggesting government complacency when it comes to violence committed by 'protected' groups is punishable by downvote. Sorry, those are the rules. Anything slightly to the right of David Cameron occupies a place of contempt among this audience.

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