Pre Christian traditions are alive and well in Western countries. Look no further than Christmas and Easter.

Can't we all just agree that all superstitions, including Islam & Christianity, are fucking retarded?

Islam calls superstitions as just that, superstitions. Stupid and silly.

I can definitely agree with that.

I think a superstition calling something else a superstition is a tad ironic

She was freed after the international outcry. Well in.

So was the alleged rapist.

Yes, the rapist has also been freed. The victim has been "pardoned".

The main thing is that she is free but the whole thing is completely fked up.

I guarantee that people will not learn from this and will continue to do business with a horror regime like that.

They can have it.

Agree entirely. They may have freed her (and her alleged attacker, who was also imprisoned for sex outside marriage, not rape) to save face, but the underlying barbarism is there for all to see.

I'm off too Russia and back before the season starts, and it's via Vietnam.

Stay away from Grozny and Makhachkala and you'll be fine.

Haven't yet been down there as I've never owned a car in my time there, but hope to do a roadtrip some day.

He's a white male. He'll be fine anyway.

And I certainly don't plan on being raped.

Who does?

Snooki.