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« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2012, 03:29:44 PM »
I'm going to vomit.
Like Ali said, this is beyond degrading. Just another way to make a human being nothing but an object.
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« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2012, 09:23:35 PM »
Quote from: Sweetdeath on May 03, 2012, 03:29:44 PM
I'm going to vomit.
Like Ali said, this is beyond degrading. Just another way to make a human being nothing but an object.

Hope you saw it was a hoax before you got ill.

Of all the damned weird things to be a hoax, I'm glad this was one but we wonder why out of all the subjects to get hoaxed THIS one was
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« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2012, 02:58:40 AM »
Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2012, 01:16:10 PM
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away from its earlier story.

There is a tiny grain of truth in the story, because apparently, there is a Moroccan cleric on the lunatic fringe (Zamzami Abdul Bari, mentioned in the Al-Arabiya story linked above) who did say a while back that a man "remains married to his wife for six hours after her death" with all that implied.

An earlier Christian Science Monitor piece on this--  "Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey."
Goes to show why it is good to check on a stories veracity. This is true especially when the stories deal with groups that we don't like or trust. 
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« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2012, 01:38:30 PM »
Quote from: markmcdaniel on June 06, 2012, 02:58:40 AM
Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2012, 01:16:10 PM
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away from its earlier story.

There is a tiny grain of truth in the story, because apparently, there is a Moroccan cleric on the lunatic fringe (Zamzami Abdul Bari, mentioned in the Al-Arabiya story linked above) who did say a while back that a man "remains married to his wife for six hours after her death" with all that implied.

An earlier Christian Science Monitor piece on this--  "Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey."
Goes to show why it is good to check on a stories veracity. This is true especially when the stories deal with groups that we don't like or trust. 

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