<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9537f280-3281-41b6-99c1-9ef032b3050a/5935656B-A0C7-4DE1-A879-023599C6D50B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html" style="font-size: 11px;">gatesofvienna.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html"><H3 class="post-title"> To Stone or Not to Stone </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html"><DIV><IMG hspace="8" border="0" align="right" vspace="5" alt="Abdul Wahid Pedersen" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_md61S_gChL0/SaHx1zzo5LI/AAAAAAAAAXA/Srff3NjMsCo/s400/abdulwahidpedersen.jpg" />Abdul Wahid Pedersen is a prominent Danish convert to Islam, and has been a controversial figure in the Danish media for quite some time. The latest uproar concerns an interview in which Mr. Pedersen refused to condemn stoning as a punishment, and the resulting reactions by politicians and in the media.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html"><DIV>One thing you’ll notice in this interview with Abdul Wahid Pedersen is his use of the fallacy of equivalence: <I>“Why don’t you ask a priest in the state church of his view of crucifixions? Should that be written out of the Bible, too?”</I></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html"><DIV>This is more fallacious than most arguments. Nowhere does the Bible prescribe crucifixion as a punishment. The crucifixion of Christ (and the two thieves) was <I>not</I> normative, and to assign it such equivalence is a vile canard.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/to-stone-or-not-to-stone.html"><DIV>But Mr. Pedersen, like <A href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/02/islamophobia-machine.html" target="_blank">Mohamed Elmasry</A>, relies on never being called to account for his malicious and spurious analogies. 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