[gambiting]

"Dart refused to stand when he was sentenced, and said: "I don't wish to stand up, I believe ruling and judging is only for Allah." "

This makes me unbelievably angry. You hear that and you just know that their mental process is just broken, no amount of time spent in prison is going to help.

[coldtea]

>You hear that and you just know that their mental process is just broken, no amount of time spent in prison is going to help.

It's not really different to what idealists and reformers have said throughout the ages.

If you accept the belief in a deity, then nothing about it sounds broken. So, it's not more or less "broken" that Pascal, or Ghandi, or whatever believed in a God.

And even if you don't accept that belief (ie. think all religious people are "broken"), it's not really different to a revolutionary saying he doesn't recognize the judgement of the state court, etc.

[arethuza]

I know it is pretty irrational, but the idea that they were going to attack Royal Wootton Bassett really got to me.

[illuminate]

Reminds me of Kent Hovind, who believed that laws should be applied differently as a "citizen of Heaven".