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I was horrified, but not at all surprised, to read that our main ally in the middle east executed an alarmingly high number of people during last year. Their judicial system is intolerant, inflexible and totally inconsistent. Why I am not surprised is that history teaches us that such brutality always occurs when religion is the government. Our government is rightly outraged over human rights abuses in other countries. That is sheer hypocrisy, when it does not acknowledge that such abuses are widespread in this nasty little ally. This is just another example of bronze-age morality of the Leviticus sort.