🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 01:26:26 GMT, "Michelle Fulton"
<mhfulton36@nospam-prodigy.net> wrote:

>"James Ascher" <jwa1968@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:RCrV8.2268$Yx5.814@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>> "Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
>> news:3d263df4.2351641@news.ev1.net...
>> > After reading the following Associated Press story I would like anyone
>> > to please explain to me, because I cannot fathom the explanation
>> > myself, the following things?
>> >
>> > 1. What part of a culture such as described should be celebrated and
>> > embraced?
>>
>> East of Iran was never is not truly Muslic.  The glorious civilization that
>> the Muslims built was centered in Iraq and later Turkey.  The last bit of
>> Muslim empire ceased in the 1920 when modern Turkey replaced the Ottoman
>> Empire.
>>
>> > 2. Where is the compassion, the all encompassing(both sexes) love and
>> > respect that we are told is inherent and explicit in the Islamic
>> > faith?
>>
>> The cultural values of these people overweigh the religious values just as
>> not all Christian practice the love, respect, and compassion taught in the
>> Bible.
>>
>> > 3. Why should anyone believe anything a Muslim says about their
>> > religion when acts of barbarism equal to anything done a thousand
>> > years ago continue to occur seemingly daily in Muslim countries?
>>
>> Compare the grisly Crusades, the Inquision, and the religious wars of the
>> 15th century and later.  There was much barbarity in those acts too.
>>
>> > 4. Why should not any or all Muslims be held accountable until such
>> > acts of atrocity cease?
>>
>> Why shouldn't all Christians be held accountable for their acts of
>> atrocity that have caused far more carnage than the Muslims?
>
>I'm a Christian but I have to agree.  You can never hold all responsible for
>the actions of a few.    That's what the terrorists did and we think that is
>wrong, so why would it be right for us to do it?

Never?
Ever?

Then what should be done?

The buck of accountability can be passed onward to infinity and used
as an excuse for restraint.  After all, some innocent person may get
hurt...
Currently, Islam ideology provides cover for chaos and repression
under the guise of religion.
Used as a means of control. 
Do you think that restraint and fairness ALWAYS serves these 'poor
innocent people'?
Hasn't worked so far.

--Sarah