Dan, I'm quoting you extensively not to annoy everyone else but out of astonishment:
> It may be a good time to repeat what I posted about the local Islamic > society. They are members, along with the local synagogue > and our church > and a few other churches, of Faiths Together...an ecumenical > organization. > One of the things they did was sponsor a community prayer for > Peace in the > Mid-East back when the violence was just restarting. > > After 9-11, they asked for a chance to explain Islam and its > teachings in > relationship to 9-11. They talked about what jihad really was > fundamentally. The most important jihad was the war against > evil in one's > own soul. Only as a last step is war against another a > justified part of > jihad. > > Then they discussed the attacks in terms of Koranic > teachings. They listed > a number of violations of the Koran involved in 9-11. They > then stated > that this was one occasion where jihad does involve war. > They then called > for a jihad against those who perverted the teachings of > Islam as they did > evil. Their call to fight AQ was the strongest of all those at the > meeting. > > Finally, I am reminded of an article put out by the SPLC that > recounted a > lynching in Duluth, my home town, that was the basis for the line > > "they selling pictures of the hanging on Desolation Row." > > While this is not of the same magnitude as what happened in > Iraq, its the > same kind. Murdering someone and then selling postcards of > the murder is > not something that should be acceptable in a civilized country. > > The point here is not to make any excuses at all for what > happened. It is, > indeed, disgusting. It is merely to suggest that one should > be slower to > compare the inherent level of civilization in two cultures when horrid > incidents like these occur. This is exactly what a Kerry adminstration will sound like and feel like. Ick. Poo. Barf. We're going to go kill a bunch of people in Fallujah in less than a week. Friends of your friends. Useful idiot. Does it ring a bell? I thought not. Idiots have bad high frequency hearing. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
