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Quoted message said:Paula Drennan said:asalamualaikum, Thank you for your defense of Islam.
Every day i go out
I
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:have to face the stares and cruel words of people who
don't understand
that
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:muslims are not all like al-qaeda, we are not all hell
bent on misusing
the
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:word of Allah to rationalize hatred.
I would observe that there is little condemnation and less
action in the Islamic community against the
fundamentalists and their acts.The group that took down the World Trade Center met in
mosques with clerics who obviously supported them. It's
rather difficult looking in from the outside at Islam to
accept that it's essentially a peaceful belief set when
there can be a price put on a writer's head for publishing
things clerics don't like, when there can be the idea of a
holy war in which there are no innocents, when suicide is
considered a rational course of action not to improve
anything but to merely destroy, and when there are
apparently so many eager to kill with more being trained
each day. Perhaps they don't act and speak for the
majority, but their actions go unremarked and unpunished
within the community. The larger community gives tacit
approval by inertia.With all the oil money in the Islamic nations, why are
there still refugee camps? Why are there so few schools
for the general populace?To be sure, many of the ideas in the Quran are different
than the behavior of the extremists, but believers would
seem to have an obligation to the belief to right these
obvious wrongs. Timothy McVey was found, arrested,
tried, jailed and executed for his part in the Oklahoma
City bombing. Others are right behind him for their
parts in the whole situation. I don't see that sort of
activity in the Islamic nations. The Saudis are finally
angry enough to make gestures against terrorists in the
face of the stunning irony of their support of the
groups all these years.The extremists have government support and shelter in too
many countries. These are governments ostensibly
established under Islamic law. They observe the laws of
tooth and claw, not civilization. The further irony is
that civilization as we know it began in the Tigris and
Euphrates valleys, Iraq, and spread through the middle
east to the rest of the western world. They have forgotten
their roots and their central beliefs. Education and
thinking have been the worst casualties in this centuries-
long decline. Islam appears to be in eclipse except as a
breeding ground for ignorance, destruction, and passivity
against evil. Where are the builders? Where are the great
thinkers? Where are the creators of a better world? Where
are the visionaries?Pastorio
I'm sure the visionaries and such exist, but that isn't
NEWS. The media is probably to blame for that. It just
doesn't seem feasible to have groups that have no other
agenda than to kill Americans and their supporters-no other
agenda like civilization, economy, peace amongst themselves-
be it government based on religion, democracy, socialism,
whatever. It seems they don't wish to govern themselves.
Sometimes I wonder if the Chinese had the best idea; build a
wall surrounding the country and shut everyone else out.