----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: RE: Winning the War on Terror
> > OTOH what religion does dance in the streets when innocents > > are killed? > > Don't forget hanging mutilated corpses on bridges and dancing around the > bridge chanting "death to Americans"... > Any civilization that permits this deserves some serious re-arrangement of > their belief system. Apologetics to the Muslim culture should seriously ask > themselves at what point is this behavior acceptable. > What really pisses me off is when the same people who are dancing around a > bridge where mutilated corpses are hanging from, they have the ignorance to > say "well, that just may be against what the Koran teaches. Killing > Americans is OK, but mutilating the bodies may be immoral" - MAYBE?!?!?! I > really don't have the adjective to describe how this makes me feel. It may be a good time to repeat what I posted about the local Islamic society. They are members, along with the local synagogue and our church and a few other churches, of Faiths Together...an ecumenical organization. One of the things they did was sponsor a community prayer for Peace in the Mid-East back when the violence was just restarting. After 9-11, they asked for a chance to explain Islam and its teachings in relationship to 9-11. They talked about what jihad really was fundamentally. The most important jihad was the war against evil in one's own soul. Only as a last step is war against another a justified part of jihad. Then they discussed the attacks in terms of Koranic teachings. They listed a number of violations of the Koran involved in 9-11. They then stated that this was one occasion where jihad does involve war. They then called for a jihad against those who perverted the teachings of Islam as they did evil. Their call to fight AQ was the strongest of all those at the meeting. Finally, I am reminded of an article put out by the SPLC that recounted a lynching in Duluth, my home town, that was the basis for the line "they selling pictures of the hanging on Desolation Row." While this is not of the same magnitude as what happened in Iraq, its the same kind. Murdering someone and then selling postcards of the murder is not something that should be acceptable in a civilized country. The point here is not to make any excuses at all for what happened. It is, indeed, disgusting. It is merely to suggest that one should be slower to compare the inherent level of civilization in two cultures when horrid incidents like these occur. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
