<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 August 2012 22:18, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am really squirmy about sentencing them for anything that sounds<br>
even remotely like "interfering with a religion."<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br>In a way, this is what could make me sympathise with the Pussy Riots, because after all they were interfering with a religion I personally dislike (albeit probably less than catholicism or Wahhabite Islam). :-)<br>
<br>What makes me reluctant to feel too involved in this very minor episode, and in fact annoys me, is that most of their supporters could not care less about that, and in fact would have a very different or even opposite position if the "political context" had been different.<br>
<br>Had it been Dawkins being arrested for stripping naked in the Westminster cathedral during a queen-assisted ceremony, I would probably react in a stronger way. :-)<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>