Brian Ross wrote on Sep 15
th, 2013 at 5:39pm:
I make no excuses for those nations [Pakistan,Saudi Arabia,Iran,Afghanistan,Sudan,Mauritania and the Maldives] and their laws... I merely recognise that it is their right to create and unfortunately impose those punishments. It is terrible but I also recognise I have no right or ability to criticise them. I am neither a member of their religion or a citizen of any of those nations.
Yes mate... you do—we all do—have the right to criticise
nations whose governments treat their citizenry with
despotism, oppression, racial or religious persecution,
sexual or gender discrimination, breaches of human
rights, barbaric police and military powers, etc.
You say you make no excuses for those nations, but
then you simply turn a blind eye to the murder and
mayhem, and say well, it's none of my business what
they do with their citizens.
In a global community, you just can't sustain that sort of
head in the sand attitude. In a troubled 21st century,
we simply can't afford to be isolationist to the degree
you (seem to be) personally proposing.
Are you also turning a blind eye to the hundreds of
thousands of stateless Rohingya people who fled Myanmar
due to increased extreme violence against them?
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees described the
onset of the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis as "
the most
urgent refugee emergency in the world".
And according to UNICEF, more than 960,000 Rohingya
people need humanitarian assistance. Of those, over
499,000 are children.
—Do you
really not care about this sort of humanitarian catastrophe?