Gert Verwilt

positivo, humanist, sociaal-liberaal, mensenrechten, dierenrechten, broertje dood aan dogmatisme

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@faqashsmasher @abdulrazakmuhd4 In your eyes kissing in a mosque is worth beheading people? In which crazy universe is that normal?

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@Dana53674738465 @abdulrazakmuhd4 I am a human being and it concerns me deeply when another human being is being beheaded for acts of love. If he had bezaten his girlfriend, they both still would be alive. What kind of madness is this?

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@whatisthat1184 @abdulrazakmuhd4 Grow up, please. It’s 2026, not the middle ages.

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@abdulrazakmuhd4 Over ‘his’ dead body, you mean?

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@overlistener @mariekehoogwout @MrsMvHJ___ Inderdaad. Vluchtelingen pakken op ontbrekende of valse documenten is een inherent rechtse insteek, maar als het om Hirsi Ali gaat, kan de heksenjacht niet lang genoeg duren.

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@overlistener @mariekehoogwout @MrsMvHJ___ Ik werk al jaren met vluchtelingen. Hen pakken op het ontbreken van documenten of er een draai aan geven, is oneerlijk. Vluchtelingen hebben vaak geen documenten en liegen er dan over, zo gaat dat.Hoe zou je zelf zijn?

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@AroupChatterjee @ouma_neko Aha, so when you support love and kindness and comdemns slaughtering people for kissing eachother, you’re an atheist? Well, that makes me a proud atheist too. I don’t like gods who command people to be killed for loving one another.

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I AM DONE. I HAVE QUIT.

I refuse to worship a God in whose name human beings are beheaded, women are oppressed, and religious fanatics appoint themselves the owners of other people's lives.

I am walking away from the Islam I have come to associate with Arab religious extremism, Saudi Arabia's religious restrictions, and sheikhs who think carrying a machete makes them guardians of God.

SAUDI ARABIA, WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU PROTECTING: HUMAN LIFE OR RELIGIOUS TERROR?

The killing of the Bangladeshi couple has shaken me to my core.

I cannot imagine the pain of their parents.

Somewhere, a mother and father are living with a wound that no prayer, sermon, or religious justification can ever heal.

Their children are gone. For what? Whose honour was protected? What kind of holiness demands human blood?

Saudi Arabia, a country whose flag bears a sword, must answer difficult questions about its death penalty, religious freedoms, and the message its institutions send to the world.

A sword is not a symbol of compassion, and fear is not proof of faith.

I once thought Al-Shabaab was Somalia's problem and Boko Haram was Nigeria's problem.

I kept telling myself these were isolated monsters. But when people repeatedly invoke religion to justify murder, I cannot keep pretending the problem does not deserve serious scrutiny.

I am sick of religious leaders who preach mercy while defending cruelty.

I am sick of men who call themselves holy while celebrating the suffering of others.

God does not need human executioners to prove His power.

Give me the pork eater who welcomes his neighbours, the drunkard who embraces a stranger, the atheist who saves a life, and the Christian, Hindu or Muslim who respects another person's freedom.

I will choose them over a machete-wielding fanatic who believes a person's head is the price of religious obedience.

I would rather sit with a thousand imperfect human beings who understand love than kneel before one self-righteous man who mistakes cruelty for holiness.

I CHOOSE PEACE. I CHOOSE HUMANITY. I CHOOSE LIFE.

I am turning back to the values I cherish in my African ancestors: love, unity, community, and respect for human life.

I refuse to believe that compassion belongs to one religion or that morality disappears the moment someone leaves a pulpit.

To the people of Bangladesh, I am deeply sorry.

To the parents of the victims, words are painfully inadequate.

May you find the strength to survive a loss no parent should ever endure.

And to every Kenyan working in Saudi Arabia, may God protect you.

May you return home safely to your families.

May no one ever harm you in the name of religion.

Saudi Arabia must understand this: the world does not owe any government, cleric, or religious institution blind obedience.

Human beings are not disposable, and religious authority is not a licence to terrorise them.

I would rather lose the approval of every religious extremist on earth than lose my conscience.

MY CONSCIENCE IS NOT FOR SALE. MY HUMANITY IS NOT NEGOTIABLE. AND MY PEACE WILL NEVER BE HELD HOSTAGE BY RELIGION.

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@beneath_veneer @NiohBerg @darren_maguire Exactly my thougts too.

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@IslamicQuiz_c If the man had hit his wife instead kissing her, both would still be alive.

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@abbkar_ai Beheading people for kissing eachother. Which sadistic, maniacal ‘god’ commands this?

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@ThomasRotthier @LodeCossaer Komaan, Thomas, onderstaande bewering is toch niet ernstig?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The dictatorship of Russia killed my husband, Cuba's killed Rosa María's father, and Iran's regime tried many times to kill Masih.

This is what Yulia Navalnaya said, and she is right. The dictators of Russia, Cuba, and the Islamic Republic of Iran have one playbook: murdering freedom fighters.

Rosa María said Cuba is closer to freedom than many imagine, and that the best way to honor those who gave their lives for freedom is not only to remember their sacrifice, but to finish the task they began.

We stood together in Madrid to receive the FAES Freedom Prize. But the real prize belongs to those who are no longer with us. To the blinded women who lost their eyes to regime bullets and were even denied visas by Europe to stand with us. To every prisoner behind bars tonight for demanding freedom.

Our dictatorships are united. They share weapons, they share money, they share torture. Now democracies must be just as united to help the freedom fighters to end dictatorship.

We will finish the task they began. Freedom will win.
Together we are stronger.

@yulia_navalnaya
@RosaMariaPaya

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@theopaesen Dat was dan ook niet he voorwerp van de verontwaardiging.

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@ViewMaster100 @JanWostyn DM is niet dogmatisch, DS alsmaar meer.

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@FThoseXBlockers @mariekehoogwout Empirische vaststelling, keer op keer op dit eigenste medium o.a.