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The fact is, that wherever Islam comes in to power, you can be sure that violence, intolerance and downright nastiness will not be far behind.
The two young people in the original question were guilty of one thing � falling in love with one another. They knew their respective families would violently disapprove. So they fled away together. They were captured, taken to a kangaroo court, found 'guilty' and publicly executed.
No sane person can think that these two young people deserved to die.
But they were executed by, presumably, sane and rational people. How can this happen? How can sane, rational people become so twisted as to believe that a death sentence was warranted in this case?
The answer is obvious � RELIGION.
It is truly and demonstrably the root of all evil. The following quote from a chap called Steven Weinberg sums it up nicely...
�With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."