The Baha'i Studies Listserv Innocent people are off-limits in an "Islamic" concept of warfare. "Innocent" refers to anyone who is not directly involved in fighting. Islam values life very much.
Peace. On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Mark A. Foster <[email protected]>wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > On 12/11/2011 2:51 PM, Matt Haase wrote: > >> >> IMHO, the Qur'an does not command the "slaughter" of anyone. It does >> permit fighting in some cases, but not the outright slaughter of innocent >> people. >> > > From the Qur'Anic verse I posted: > > > "for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter." > > I suppose the issue of who is and who is not innocent is determined by > God. On the other hand, I have seen no evidence that innocents cannot be > "slaughtered," as well. > > --- > :) Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociologist > 29 domains: http://markfoster.net > Two books: http://bahaifaith.info > Clinical: http://fosterservices.com > > ______________________________**____________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-624108-953325.** > e9a9b042dd227e4657deb0ff0d3845**[email protected]<leave-624108-953325.e9a9b042dd227e4657deb0ff0d384...@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<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<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]<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > New Public - > http://www.mail-archive.com/**[email protected]<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-624111-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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]
