10 Amazing Acts Of Defiance Throughout History

[Bit_Happy]

Here is another. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag sentenced to death by stoning, for refusing to convert to Islam. Her husband is an American citizen, but there has been no help from the United States authorities so far.

I was curious what country:
"A Sudanese court has sentenced Mariam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, 27..."
Sudan? Wow, I will be certain to stay away from there.

[bryant.coleman]

I was curious what country:
"A Sudanese court has sentenced Mariam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, 27..."
Sudan? Wow, I will be certain to stay away from there.

Sudan is the shit-hole of the world. The country is currently in the middle of the third civil war, after the first and second claimed millions of civilian lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sudanese_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_internal_conflict_(2011%E2%80%93present)

And don't forget the Darfur conflict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur

[LostDutchman]

Here is another. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag sentenced to death by stoning, for refusing to convert to Islam. Her husband is an American citizen, but there has been no help from the United States authorities so far.

OK, I agree that this is a bad situation but just what is it that you think the USA should do?

[bryant.coleman]

OK, I agree that this is a bad situation but just what is it that you think the USA should do?

For the start, Obama could open up his mouth and condemn the death sentence imposed on the unfortunate woman. We can think about sanctions and embargoes later, if the Sudanese ignore the warnings.

[RodeoX]

OK, I agree that this is a bad situation but just what is it that you think the USA should do?

For the start, Obama could open up his mouth and condemn the death sentence imposed on the unfortunate woman. We can think about sanctions and embargoes later, if the Sudanese ignore the warnings.

I don't know what we can do about this. It is not our country or our laws. It makes me sick, but we in the west only recently stopped killing people for religious beliefs. Besides, who are we to talk about what God wants? Maybe this is what God wants, maybe God hates all Christians?

[LostDutchman]

Here is another. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag sentenced to death by stoning, for refusing to convert to Islam. Her husband is an American citizen, but there has been no help from the United States authorities so far.

I was curious what country:
"A Sudanese court has sentenced Mariam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, 27..."
Sudan? Wow, I will be certain to stay away from there.

I mean, like, who would want to go there anyway?

[zolace]

OK, I agree that this is a bad situation but just what is it that you think the USA should do?

For the start, Obama could open up his mouth and condemn the death sentence imposed on the unfortunate woman. We can think about sanctions and embargoes later, if the Sudanese ignore the warnings.

I kinda agree on this, Im sure there is so much Obama can handle the problem is the whole government not one person is fighting for this mans right, nor any other country.

[Bit_Happy]

Here is another. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag sentenced to death by stoning, for refusing to convert to Islam. Her husband is an American citizen, but there has been no help from the United States authorities so far.

....

I was curious what country:
"A Sudanese court has sentenced Mariam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, 27..."
Sudan? Wow, I will be certain to stay away from there.

I mean, like, who would want to go there anyway?

People urgently needing to leave Egypt or Chad would have a motivation to try Sudan.
Is it a place you would like?
Variety is the spice of life, but too much spice can cause digestive issues.

[LostDutchman]

Here is another. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag sentenced to death by stoning, for refusing to convert to Islam. Her husband is an American citizen, but there has been no help from the United States authorities so far.

....

I was curious what country:
"A Sudanese court has sentenced Mariam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, 27..."
Sudan? Wow, I will be certain to stay away from there.

I mean, like, who would want to go there anyway?

People urgently needing to leave Egypt or Chad would have a motivation to try Sudan.
Is it a place you would like?
Variety is the spice of life, but too much spice can cause digestive issues.

No shit!

Thank you for your insightful post!

[bryant.coleman]

People urgently needing to leave Egypt or Chad would have a motivation to try Sudan.
Is it a place you would like?
Variety is the spice of life, but too much spice can cause digestive issues.

Makes sense. But in this case Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was a Sudanese citizen, although she is of partial-Ethiopian origin. Her mother was also a Sudanese citizen, a descendant of immigrants from Ethiopia.

[KonstantinosM]

The Greek States VS the Persian Empire in thermopylae

20,000 men against 300,000.... And they won.

The Greeks lost 4k men the Persians lost 20k.

2nd failed invasion in a row by Persia.


What makes this an act of defiance is that Leonidas started marching with only 300 hoplites and then others joined him to form the army of 14-20k that defeated the Persians.


If no one had joined him he would have picked a battle nearly 1 vs 1000

That would only make sense if he had invented the AK-47 2200 years in advance and each solider had 34 magazines of ammo and were really, really, really good shots.

[Trading]

The Greeks were only about 7000, maybe 7700, from several cities, so the act of defiance was even greater. But they didn't win, many of them were massacred after 3 days of heroic struggle, fighting to the last men (not only the 300 Spartans).

Things didn't end there. Xerxes and the Persian army managed to burn Athens and only after the naval battle of Salamis were defeated. Well, actually, after that, Athens was again conquered by the Persians under Mardonius. Only with the battle of Plataea (479 BC) they were expelled from Greece.

Yes, I like military and political history.

[cbeast]

Life is short. Do what you can. Hope for the best.

[bryant.coleman]

Things didn't end there. Xerxes and the Persian army managed to burn Athens and only after the naval battle of Salamis were defeated. Well, actually, after that, Athens was again conquered by the Persians under Mardonius. Only with the battle of Plataea (479 BC) they were expelled from Greece.

The Battle of Plataea is considered as the final major battle during the Persian invasion of Greece. It forms a part of the Persian invasion. So we can say that the Greeks actually defeated the Persians and repelled the invasion. Battle of Plataea was very devastating for the Persians... they lost more than 250,000 men.

[Bit_Happy]

Things didn't end there. Xerxes and the Persian army managed to burn Athens and only after the naval battle of Salamis were defeated. Well, actually, after that, Athens was again conquered by the Persians under Mardonius. Only with the battle of Plataea (479 BC) they were expelled from Greece.

The Battle of Plataea is considered as the final major battle during the Persian invasion of Greece. It forms a part of the Persian invasion. So we can say that the Greeks actually defeated the Persians and repelled the invasion. Battle of Plataea was very devastating for the Persians... they lost more than 250,000 men.

That is exciting but horrific. Will mankind ever learn how to avoid brutal wars?

[LostDutchman]

Things didn't end there. Xerxes and the Persian army managed to burn Athens and only after the naval battle of Salamis were defeated. Well, actually, after that, Athens was again conquered by the Persians under Mardonius. Only with the battle of Plataea (479 BC) they were expelled from Greece.

The Battle of Plataea is considered as the final major battle during the Persian invasion of Greece. It forms a part of the Persian invasion. So we can say that the Greeks actually defeated the Persians and repelled the invasion. Battle of Plataea was very devastating for the Persians... they lost more than 250,000 men.

That is exciting but horrific. Will mankind ever learn how to avoid brutal wars?

I doubt it.

Humankind is an agressive, territorial and highly combative species.

[bryant.coleman]

That is exciting but horrific. Will mankind ever learn how to avoid brutal wars?

Well.. the Persians invaded the Greeks and the Greeks fought back to expel the invaders. How can we blame the Greeks for defending their homeland? As long as there are loonies who want to invade the weaker nations, we will witness similar wars.

[Trading]

The problem is that the Greeks didn't stop there and, commanded by the Macedonians (I'm not going to enter the fight on the issue of the autonomy of ancient Macedonia from Greece), did to the Persian what they did to them: in 334, invaded them, burnt their capital and conquered their Empire.

[Bit_Happy]

That is exciting but horrific. Will mankind ever learn how to avoid brutal wars?

Well.. the Persians invaded the Greeks and the Greeks fought back to expel the invaders. How can we blame the Greeks for defending their homeland? As long as there are loonies who want to invade the weaker nations, we will witness similar wars.

History is amazing but also very dark since it often tells us what to expect in the future.

That is exciting but horrific. Will mankind ever learn how to avoid brutal wars?

I doubt it.

Humankind is an agressive, territorial and highly combative species.

Well, if enough people learn to change & teach their children, then there might be some hope.
We need HOPE and CHANGE.....Oops.......Those once useful words are now tainted.
Bitcoin: = Change you can actually believe in.

Hey, maybe someday BTC will be viewed as a "great act of defiance"....?
On the brink of economic collapse, we have taken a stand against the evil paper money system.

[acs267]

As a side note about "tank man". That image is almost completely unknown in China. That is how clamped down the government is there.

Think about it as 'changing history'. Forty-five years from now, It'll be completely unknown. And it's basically that, right now, with China's censorship. They're not exactly clamped down, they're 'controlling' their people.