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High ResolutionFormer detainees and defectors have identified the locations, agencies responsible, torture methods used, and, in many cases, the commanders in charge of 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies.
The systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture that Human Rights Watch documented clearly point to a state policy of torture and ill-treatment and therefore constitute a crime against humanity.
Check out the interactive map here.
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Had I lived a few centuries ago I might have been burned alive by some loving Christians.
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High ResolutionYour Jesus would be pleased.
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High ResolutionA Sufi Kalandar (or wandering ascetic) performs an act of self torture during the annual Urs festival at the shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, India, Thursday, June 9, 2011. The Urs is observed to mark the death anniversary of the saint, known for his philosophy on religious tolerance. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Religion makes people do fucked-up shit! FUCKED-UP SHIT!!
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High ResolutionThings like lakes of fire or telling a child that a man was tortured to death because they are a bad boy/girl. Or how about that time god killed everyone on earth or that other time he just killed all the first born children of Egypt?
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We come in Jesus name to torture the shit out of you.
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"[The Catholic Church] barely protested when the last president authorized torture, but the Catholic hierarchy is now determined to use what’s left of its authority to organize protests this summer against their right to deny insured contraception to Catholic and non-Catholic employees in schools and hospitals. This will be their cause - not saving universal healthcare from repeal, not bringing illegal immigrants out of the shadows, not protecting the poor, but affirming that religious liberty is at stake if they cannot keep the pill from their female employees’ insurance, 98 percent of whom use it at some point in their lives anyway."
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High ResolutionSecret footage showing ‘torture’ of Syrians in Homs hospital was leaked
The secretly recorded images, to be broadcast by Britain’sChannel 4 television stationon Monday night, show wards of wounded men being held blindfolded and shackled to their beds in what is said to be the military hospital in Homs.
Some bear wounds suggesting they have been severely beaten. In a chilling indication that their ordeal has been endured in the hospital itself, a rubber whip and an electric cable lie on a table in one of the wards.
Electric cables are known to be one of the most commonly used instruments of torture in Syria, where they are used repeatedly to beat a suspect’s feet into a bloody pulp, a practiceknown as “falaka”.
The victim is then often forced to walk across a floor sprinkled with salt, described by some of those who have experienced it as far more painful than the beating itself.
The footage was recorded by an unidentified employee at the hospital and was spirited out of Syria by a French news photographer.
This is really outrageous. I’m fucking shaking.
You can NEVER justify what is happening in Syria. Horrendous.
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Simply the BEST
Is it not telling, for example, that the party that tells us that America is exceptional is also the party that endorses torture but will not call it by its proper name? And the logic is very tight: because America is morally superior, it can act in ways others morally and legally cannot, and when Americans torture, it is not torture, precisely and only because Americans are doing it. It’s the kind of perfect self-justification one finds among some of the more self-righteous “born-again”, a hermetically sealed circle of self-love, designed not to expose and root out sin, but to reaffirm self-worth regardless. It’s a very modern form of solipsism, the kind of thing conservatives would usually condemn if told to a child as a way to build his or her self-esteem. But that’s how they see Americans, as children, whose memories evaporate instantly, who are only beguiled by the cliches of lost eras, who need to be told repeatedly, even as they slip behind, that they are still the best.And not just the best. But the Best Ever!
— Andrew Sullivan
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Christians have an odd idea of “fun”.
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[TRIGGER WARNING: Descriptions of torture and violence.] - Tortured and killed: Hamza al-Khateeb, age 13 - Features - Al Jazeera English
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