<Shock and horror>

[asterroc]

I am officially rescinding any tolerance I had for fundamentalist Islam. I heard about this on NPR this afternoon - an Afgan man is on trial for converting away from Islam (to Christianity, but that part's irrelevant) 16 years ago. It's his own family that turned him in. The legally required sentence under sharia law is death.

The article doesn't say but NPR did, that after statements from Bush, the prosecutor wants to allow the defendant to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, in which case he will not get the death penalty.

ETA: I got a better link (hooray BBC!) from q10.

Comments

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

I think it is most likely a nervous system thing. Depending on the type of stimuli, pressure points can cause or relieve pain (rubbing will cause one, while poking will cause the other). For my kung-fu teacher's teacher's birthday, we had a kung fu family reunion, and one of my teacher's training brothers has a degree in classical chinese medicine, so the lesson he taught focused on pressure points. It was a really cool class.