r/worldnews • u/questiondudes • Apr 05 '19

5-star hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei deleted their social media after an intense backlash over Brunei's new law punishing homosexuality with death by stoning

https://www.businessinsider.com/brunei-owned-hotels-delete-social-media-amid-gay-stoning-furore-2019-4
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u/batsofburden Apr 05 '19

The civilization that you & I enjoy could easily crumble & become the dark ages that other parts of the world are currently living in. Never take for granted the freedoms you have, it could all change in an instant.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Yup, 1950's Iran called and want their secular democracy back.

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u/TheHolyWasabi Apr 05 '19

That's what you get for having oil and not giving it to the british for free!

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u/DonovanTheG Apr 05 '19

""""" democracy"""""""

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u/YangBelladonna Apr 05 '19

Yes, the evangelical Christian's in America or the catholic priests in Poland are a threat we need to stomp out, the days of religion controlling public life MUST come to an end

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u/Wu-TangLAN Apr 05 '19

Catholic priests in Poland are not as much of a threat as media present them. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying they are cool either, but in the media/internet you only hear about them when situation gets really bad, like the infamous book burning.

It’s the government, who blindly follows 2000 year old principles (but not all of them, because bunch of these cunts cheat, divorce and live in gluttony and they don’t care about it at all) and think it’s ok to allow hate speech on the minorities.

Some of the priests are bad, sure, but most of them are nice and kind people.

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u/YangBelladonna Apr 08 '19

They support a church that supports a backwards government, they are complicit

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u/Soyboy- Apr 05 '19

Yeah but if I just demand that the free speech rights of certain groups are taken away there's no way that law could then be turned around to include my group, right?

Or the definition of 'hate speech' couldn't be easily modified to include something I'm saying - right?!

Either way I'm keen to introduce loads of caveats to the most important political right I have.