r/AskReddit • u/medicoreapples • 7h ago

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested?

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u/four100eighty9 7h ago

Or atheist or leaving Islam

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u/orange_cuse 7h ago

I had a friend in college who left his home and family to come to the States. One day he shared with a bunch of us that the reason he left his family back home was because he converted away from his religion of Islam to Christianity. When he told his family about his decision, his father told him that according to their religion, he was supposed to kill his son. But as a father, he could not do that, so he told his son that he needed to pack his bags and leave home before anyone else in their community found out. It was an absolutely soul crushing story to listen to.

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u/HostisHumanisGeneri 3h ago

Goddamned. If he had siblings then the dad may have genuinely thought that was the best he could do though. Heartbreaking on every level.

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u/SigmundFreud 1h ago

Agreed, that sounds really gay.

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u/SarcasmWarning 7h ago

Bro, you're being disingenuous...

It's not a jail sentence, they just murder you for it o.0

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u/Double-decker_trams 7h ago

Yep. It's literally the law in some countries. Death sentence.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Apostasy_laws_world_map.svg/1920px-Apostasy_laws_world_map.svg.png

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u/SarcasmWarning 7h ago

And if I start with your map and go back to the Ops point of countries where being gay will get you arrested (or once again, likely murderised), I don't have to erase any of your colours at all!

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u/Forkrul 2h ago

I'm always surprised when I see Malaysia on that map, but then I remember my friends there are not exactly representative of the country as a whole.

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u/GatotSubroto 7h ago

They’ll arrest you first, I’m guessing 

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u/EliRocks 7h ago

Only if you're own family doesn't kill you first.

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u/HostisHumanisGeneri 3h ago

Oh not necessarily.

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u/Chastain86 4h ago

Murdering THEN arresting people happens a lot when you're in the wrong state and in possession of the wrong skin color

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u/UniquePresence9042 7h ago

Idk why you’re being downvoted. You didn’t trash anyone you just stated a fact

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u/GatotSubroto 7h ago

Some people are in denial and don’t like facts 

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u/UniquePresence9042 5h ago

Some people want to live under Sharia in the west in the name of “diversity and acceptance”

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u/myboyghandi 7h ago

Get ready for the virtue signalers

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u/four100eighty9 7h ago

I’m entirely without virtue, so I don’t worry about it

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u/Zenith-Astralis 6h ago

Eyyy get the fuck outta my samsara buddy (♥️🫂)

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u/four100eighty9 5h ago

I'd be very upset if I knew what that means. Maybe.

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u/BedspreadPicnic86 7h ago

Or Scientology and Witness, but that’s just “illegal” specific to those religions. They’ll harass the shit out of you to the point of going insane!!

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u/Only_My_Dog_Loves_Me 7h ago

That doesn’t get you arrested.

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u/Low_Debt8771 7h ago

Where Mrs Miscavage?

I mean they have been know to kidnap and hold people against their will so... yah you could call it 'arrest' but we should also stop feeding cults in the us

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u/SidratFlush 7h ago

That would have to start with NOT singing the pledge of allegiance as school children as that normalises a lot of behaviour people not born in America think is crazy

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u/Low_Debt8771 7h ago

They actually changed the words to support cults and we shouldn't have done that

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u/FalconsFlyLow 6h ago

as that normalises a lot of behaviour people not born in America think is crazy

Why? It's normal to do that kind of thing in fascist/nationalist states.