Are Politics Regressing to Premodern Forms? Piroschka Van De Wouw / Reuters

The sultan of Brunei has proposed stoning as being a punishment for male sodomy.

Piroschka Van De Wouw / Reuters

The sultan’s hand felt soft and mild, more fitted to a moisturizer commercial compared to playing a general public stoning. The sultan of Brunei had shaken tens of thousands of hands in the previous two days, and I worried that by the time his hand shook mine, it would be blistered or leathery by the official count. But absolute monarchs are very different me, and the sultan of this oil-rich Southeast Asian city-state was different dermatologically as well from you and. I looked at Curley in Of Mice and guys, whom wore a “glove fulla vaseline” to help keep their hand “soft for their spouse. Once I arrived in front associated with receiving line and squeezed the royal hand, gently, ” (Wives, I was thinking, in their situation. The sultan hbecause received up to two at a right time. )

The sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, recently attracted fury and denunciation by instituting death by stoning as punishment for male sodomy.

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