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[generalripper]

In case you haven't seen the article, a 5-year-old in Iraq was doused in gasoline and set on fire.

His crime? Playing outside. Must be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the Bush administration. Islam is a religion of peace, after all.

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[generalripper]

How about the other inconsistencies? Remember the 80's, when South Africa were the bad guys because of apartheid? And how South Africa bashing was the cool hip cause, and there was all this pressure on companies to boycott South Africa (or risk being boycotted themselves by consumers)? And how it finally brought down Apartheid (and now SA is heading the way of Zimbabwe

[apostate_96]

I don't know if it has anything to do with Islam or not, but there's absolutely no way to justify that kind of....of.....Christ, I don't have a word strong enough for what that is. "Atrocity" is the closest I can come to, and it's still a faint shadow of the reality of it. Plenty of other things like that were perpetrated in the name of Christianity, the kinds of things that would've had Christ wishing he'd never said a fucking thing in the first place if that's how his words were gonna be used.

What's really sad to me is that the family can't leave. It'd be different if he was going to have a chance somewhere else, at least not worrying about the same assholes tracking him down again.

[generalripper]

Actually, the Shriners are trying to do something for the kid and his family. I guess the Shriners have a burn center especially for kids.

Working in one of those places must be fucking awful - I mean, sure you're helping to rehabilitate kids, but I've heard that the debridement treatments and physical therapy for burn victims is just plain agonizing.

[apostate_96]

Glad to hear someone's trying to help. Given the extent of the damage done, I don't know how well they'll be able to do. I also can't help worrying about what it's going to be like for that family to stay in that area where people know what happened....and probably question what he did to bring it on himself and whether that might result in similar wrath being brought down on them.

I know some of those treatments are pretty painful. I also know some are done while the burned tissue is still healing so that it'll do better as it's healing. I got the impression that a lot of it had already healed up, which would make trying to do reconstruction that much more difficult. And, sadly, probably more painful.

After seeing a story like this, I can understand where people are coming from who just want to nuke the whole area into glass if that's what the people there are like. I don't agree with them, but I can definitely understand what'd make them want to go with that approach.

[generalripper]

I can understand where people are coming from who just want to nuke the whole area into glass if that's what the people there are like.I sometimes think that, but not always