the willingness of abraham to kill his son then god oh no i was just checking to see if you where really willing to do it , you were! wow i must be good.
come on, no flavor in your food, taste and smell are connected so lose one and the others diminished, touch? you'd be giving up all your physical pleasures and not feeling pain so you could cut yourself not notice and bleed to death, hearing? no music, no warning, no aural comedy, you'd have to learn sign language. na, give up sight get given a dog and a white stick pretty much universal respect [developed world anyway] blind people have access to many resources the others don't cept hearing and all your other senses would be enhanced, yep sight any day and with all the advances in science they'll probably cure you next year.
none of the above, peace cannot be forced on any country that is called control. although japan has laws that say it can only defend itself it is still having prob's with Russia over ownership of some islands. probably true peace will only be achieved when mankind has a truly shocking moment of self realization after an incredibly violent event, unbelievably that hasn't happened yet.
thanks for your input peeps, three people said it was normal, i must say i'm surprised but being told by a 22yr old christian woman that it was normal made me curious about general feeling, i did tell her that i didn't think it was normal and that it would be considered highly irregular in many communities. i admit my poll description was ambiguous but it got the emotion i wanted.
pakistans laws on blasphemy are backwards and reflect badly on pakistani citizens
by oppression of Islam i take it you mean practiced in the name of Islam?