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Do you also like people falling off of roofs to their deaths while flying kites?

That appears to be the reason for the court ruling in the article.

Do you use flesh-cutting wire to fly your kites?

Islam is not the issue here, even though a number of hardline Muslims apparently oppose the activity on religious grounds. Public safety is. What we consider to be a harmless pasttime for children and adults has become a competitive and sometimes violent team sport for grown men in Pakistan.

In the good old US of A, on the other hand, we have hardline Christians opposing same-gender marriage on religious grounds, and nobody falls off of roofs and kills themselves as a result of that. Does that indicate that Americans are not capable of democracy, or that we have people with strong opinions?

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