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Originally posted by martin dufresne:
[b]Number of deaths due to anti-Rushdie fatwa over the last eighteen years: 0Number of deaths due to papal pronouncements against contraception and abortion: 215 000 maternal pregnancy-related deaths per year (according to Guttmacher Institute stats).
If we are going to take on religions, let's do so consistently.[/b]
OK - you are making some false correlations here. How many of those 215,000 women wanted to get pregnant? How many were Catholic? How many were non-religious or another religion?
Secondly, if you are doing comparisons like that, it would make sense to include the number of people killed in Islamic countries over speech-like "crimes". Zahra Kazemi is one that comes to mind. Salmon Rushdie was a well-publicized case. What of those in obscurity with no media representation.
Anyways, carry on comparing apples to grapefruit and for some reason refusing to condemn murderous fatwas by entire governments.