re: #22 ~Fianna

That makes no sense. That’s just barbarism.

What’s the difference between that and what the Taliban does?

I had to debate on whether or not to even say this, Charles, please delete this if it is over the top.

But on two occasions I read (I can’t find a link) that Al Qaeda in Iraq baked sons and fed them to parents, because the parents would not allow them to join the resistance. That is barbarism. Know your enemy before you make silly moral equivalences. That is not to say what we did was right, but there really is no comparison.

I have also read historical references of the practice in Islam.