The Baha'i Studies Listserv I think you are confused. It sounds like you are saying that after Uthman was killed he gave an illegal order to kill his own murderers?!?
Otherwise, I would point out that Uthman was murdered while he was at home reading the Quran. It wasn't like he was out on the battlefield. In no way is this the kind of killing that would normally be considered "self-defense". On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Susan Maneck <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> I think that if you take the Bahai relativistic approach to morality, >> what Muawaiyya sought *was* justice because he had a right to it by >> the Quran. As Uthman's kin he had the the option of forgiving the >> murderers but refused to give it. But even without invoking >> relativism, even today it is generally unjust to let murderers go off >> scott free. > > Except in this case Uthman had unjustly given orders for these > soldiers to be executed. It was therefore self-defense. > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-534950-68452.e157d5dc5efabb63696f251595c88...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:[email protected] > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-534951-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
