--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/24/07 7:07:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Calling for an explanation of a religious > > belief that evokes high emotion and political activism, that often > ends in death > > for a group of people, is hardly anti- Islamic, unless of course it > happens > > to be an embarrassing belief. > > Yes. That's sounds just like some of the 'beliefs' of those in the > Christian Right and the right wing media who demonize Muslims. Kinda > like Michael Savage who wanted to "stick dynamite up their asses, > light the fuse and drop them out of airplanes". Or Anne Coulter who > recommended we invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert > them to Christianity. > > Or Glenn Beck During a November 14, 2006, interview with Rep. Keith > Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, Beck said to the > congressman: "What I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you > are not working with our enemies." (Beck later apologized for what he > said was a "poorly worded question.") > > On his shows, Beck repeatedly belittles the Muslim faith by mocking > Muslim names and through actions such as "mark[ing] the death" of Al > Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with a "Zarqawi bacon cake." > > Jerry Falwell, "I think Mohammed was a terrorist." > > > > > So which one of these people is quoting a religious text calling for > anybody's death? Michael Savage isn't a Christian, he's a Jew. Ann Coulter's > comment, as I recall, was tongue in cheek. Glenn Beck mocked a dead terrorist not a > religion and Jerry Falwell just may have been right about Mohammed being a > terrorist due to all the killings he was responsible for on scriptural grounds > > (Koran of Medina ) 8:12 : âI will be with you. Give strength to the > believers. I will send terror into the unbelieversâ hearts, cut off their heads and > even the tips of their fingers!â
Bible: Numbers 31:1-54 - Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow!
