Isn't that kind of the point? You don't vote for a leader, who in the Coalition is especially answerable to the party room, unlike Rudd/Spillard.
The Coalition is against it, therefore it will not be Coalition policy, regardless of the druthers of its leader. Even bloody Cory Bernardi is...
That's a fucking retarded reason to vote for a party over another. At least if you're going to vote for the ALP do it for some reasoned, well-justified idea.
More correctly, racism and other associated "group dividers" - religion, customs, lol even hairstyle - are a cultural expression of biological xenophobia, as a function of parochial altruism.
So you're gonna force a woman to go through 9 months of pregnancy (which isn't a piece of cake), risk gestational diabetes, go through v painful birth and then maybe post-partum depression?
- treatment of women
- treatment of gays
- treatment of apostates and atheists
- inferiority complex
- application of sharia law
etc
Obviously this doesn't apply in "progressive Muslims" (lol :rolleyes:).
No it isn't, considering you clearly have an opinion on the subject, which is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's apostasy and whether or not the death penalty for that in Islam is right/appropriate.
The USA and its capital punishments have nothing to do with this, as they are not religiously informed (and...
Okay, so you don't actually plan on addressing the argument. Fine.
Do you consider it right that apostasy is associated with treason in Islam/Islamic countries, and that apostates should be given the death penalty (which is the punishment in only a very few non-Islamic countries)?