And a response from the same time: http://slate.msn.com/id/2103261/
It's mentioned in the Koran. It's mentioned in the Hadith. It's mentioned in commentary. It's practiced as part of Islamic law in such places as Saudi Arabia. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doing a quick Google search, I can find very little about beheadings > actually being mentioned, much less condoned, in the Koran. > > I did find this article on USA Today, however.. > http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-06-20-koran-beheadings_x.htm > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Michael Dinowitz < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Because beheadings are a negative action performed almost exclusively by > > Muslims who use Islam as the reason for doing it. The silence in regard > to > > it from within the Muslim community is a little scary to me, especially > the > > silence from clergy. I expect someone to step up and say that its wrong. > > Flat out that its wrong, not playing word games and dance around the > > subject. > > > > Your example of drugs do not come close, but lets say that it did. Lets > say > > that there is a problem with drug use in the African American community. > Do > > you see any protests against drugs? Sermons against drugs? Speeches, > > seminars, newspaper articles, etc. all about drugs? Hey, there are! > Drugs, > > which is neither unique to the African American community nor condoned by > > any holy book they follow is rejected by the community vocally. We have > > people from the community standing up and saying "we reject this" and it > is > > bad. > > Have we seen CAIR doing this? > > > > (and Rastifarians are a whole other story) > > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Why do there need to be protests against it to show that a majority of > > > Muslims are against it? > > > > > > This is basically like asking, can African-Americans live without > drugs, > > > because Gruss saw a few black guys doing drugs once. (and I would think > > > more > > > people die from drug use that beheading in this country) > > > > > > It is a ridiculous assumption to think that all or even a large > > percentage > > > of Muslims support this behavior. The entire religon and its followers > > > cannot be rubber stamped becasue of a few extremists. > > > > > Show me the protests. I want protests. I want rejection of the actions. I > > want to hear someone say that it is wrong. Not just us. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288713 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
