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July 25, 2006
Good Questions - Great Perspective
Just heard a nurse in Haifa ask a damned good question on Fox News: What kind of "religion" tells you to kill other people? What have we done to him (Nasrallah) except exist?
Perspective in just two questions! Here's another perspective on the "religion" of the terrorists:
In order to understand a culture, you must examine how that culture views and treats their most vulnerable of citizens--their children. Most Americans could not imagine the horror of out-living their child, it is widely accepted that it is the worst experience one could endure. However, what would seem to be a universal emotion does not hold true amongst scores of Arab Muslims. Many Muslims view their children as nothing more than walking bombs. An Egyptian children's show recently touted the fact that suicide bombing is in fact a Muslim family value.Read the rest here...Muslim cleric Sheik Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din said during a recent episode of a children's show appearing on the Egyptian Al-Nas network: "We want mothers who teach their sons Jihad, the love of Allah and his messenger, sacrifice for the sake of Islam." The Sheik had just finished reading a story depicting Muhhamed's triumph over a Jewish woman. After taking a phone call in which a Muslim boy named Ruqaya voiced his hatred of Jews, the Sheik began shouting "Allah Akbar!" Al-Din went on to say: "The Jews are the people of treachery, betrayal, and vileness."
You'll find yet another perspective here.
And let's remember that Muslims around the world are being killed by their fellow Muslims, much more so than by non-Muslims. Yet there is no media outcry. Let's also keep in mind that there are many peace-loving Muslims (I have many peace-loving secular-accepting Muslim friends), although Tashbih Sayyed, a Muslim, says that they are getting harder to find. Interestingly my Muslim friends tell me that they exercise caution around other Muslims until they know them - very well; apparenly, at least according to my friends, there are many in our Florida community that are of dubious ideological affiliation.
Related: A War against All of Us
Posted by Richard at July 25, 2006 12:06 PM
