Re: Islamic compassion, or inherent barbarism?

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From: Michelle Fulton
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 01:26

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"James Ascher" <jwa1968@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
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> > 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?

Michelle

> James
>
>

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