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EDITORIAL. Stoned to death for blasphemy by Muslim students, the young Nigerian has become a symbol of the importance of the fight for secularism.
By Peggy Sastre
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Sn the images, we see a corpse dressed in pink, wedged between gray and white rubble, his head red with blood. Men persist, continue to stone and whip him when he looks completely dead. A behavior with an evolutionary base evident since it is found, in particular, in chimpanzees and that Paleolithic art is full of such representations – bodies slashed with a number of arrows far greater than what is necessary to kill. According to Steven A. LeBlanc, an American archaeologist specializing in primitive warfare, drawing on Richard Wrangham’s research on the subject of violence among primates, the interest of this “over-killing” is not only educational – in trend, excess blows are the work of teenagers and inexperienced warriors…
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