ISLAM - Thinking & Politics in light of Abdul Rahman
A Christian friend wrote:
"Once he dared to think, he was killed.
Islam is against people thinking."
Western Politically-correctness and Islam both love non-thought.
Perhaps it is why they make such ready bedfellows.
Hindo-Buddhism in some lands is the same.
IF (as some political leaders maintained)
the example made of a man named "Servant of Mercy"
& who steadfastly looks to the Lord Jesus for hope,
is to kill him,
then what remains for those would attack compassion & faithfulness
which are the foundations of the throne of God?
"OH, King of Glory, intercede for Your name's sake!"
Christ alone is our redeemer.
Psalm 2
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Various Responses to the case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan:
http://www.catholic.org/international/i
Many leaders show much less Political Correctness on this issue than on cartoons. Both Bush and Rice have spoken out quite clearly on the situation in the USA:
http://www.localnewsleader.com/kind
Australia, Germany and Italy have also all spoken against the trial.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18
Even CAIR, has come out against the trial:
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.p
BUT their web site hasn't spoken against the injustice:
http://www.cair-net.org/
In response to all this, the statements coming out of Afghanistan so
far are a bit defensive
http://tinyurl.com/r3m3d
An accusation of insanity can cover the face for a moment, but can the Muslim world face God by throwing around accusations of insanity?
Murder, riots, execution, etc. are simply not justified on the basis of disagreeing with the importance of a dead Arabian poet who never clearly claimed for himself the divine status which many Muslims seem to accord him.
For example, Bush has said,
"I'm troubled when I hear, deeply troubled when I hear, the fact that a person who converted away from Islam may be held to account."
[What about Saudi Arabia which has had & continues to have the same pattern of killing & imprisoning those who refuse to subject themselves to the irrationality of Islam??
When will they be free??]
From the New York Sun
"Intolerable Trial"
http://www.nysun.com/article/29616
"And now, on the heels of the cartoon controversy and the port deal,
comes perhaps the worst of it all: Afghanistan's trial of Abdul Rahman, who grew up as a Muslim in Afghanistan, but converted about 15 years ago while working with a Christian-run refugee aid group in Pakistan.
If you wanted to write a tale designed to get Americans furious with
the Muslim world as a whole and with the Afghani government in particular, you would be hard-pressed to come up with an outrage more effective than this."
"Once he dared to think, he was killed.
Islam is against people thinking."
Western Politically-correctness and Islam both love non-thought.
Perhaps it is why they make such ready bedfellows.
Hindo-Buddhism in some lands is the same.
IF (as some political leaders maintained)
the example made of a man named "Servant of Mercy"
& who steadfastly looks to the Lord Jesus for hope,
is to kill him,
then what remains for those would attack compassion & faithfulness
which are the foundations of the throne of God?
"OH, King of Glory, intercede for Your name's sake!"
Christ alone is our redeemer.
Psalm 2
=====
Various Responses to the case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan:
http://www.catholic.org/international/i
Many leaders show much less Political Correctness on this issue than on cartoons. Both Bush and Rice have spoken out quite clearly on the situation in the USA:
http://www.localnewsleader.com/kind
Australia, Germany and Italy have also all spoken against the trial.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18
Even CAIR, has come out against the trial:
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.p
BUT their web site hasn't spoken against the injustice:
http://www.cair-net.org/
In response to all this, the statements coming out of Afghanistan so
far are a bit defensive
http://tinyurl.com/r3m3d
An accusation of insanity can cover the face for a moment, but can the Muslim world face God by throwing around accusations of insanity?
Murder, riots, execution, etc. are simply not justified on the basis of disagreeing with the importance of a dead Arabian poet who never clearly claimed for himself the divine status which many Muslims seem to accord him.
For example, Bush has said,
"I'm troubled when I hear, deeply troubled when I hear, the fact that a person who converted away from Islam may be held to account."
[What about Saudi Arabia which has had & continues to have the same pattern of killing & imprisoning those who refuse to subject themselves to the irrationality of Islam??
When will they be free??]
From the New York Sun
"Intolerable Trial"
http://www.nysun.com/article/29616
"And now, on the heels of the cartoon controversy and the port deal,
comes perhaps the worst of it all: Afghanistan's trial of Abdul Rahman, who grew up as a Muslim in Afghanistan, but converted about 15 years ago while working with a Christian-run refugee aid group in Pakistan.
If you wanted to write a tale designed to get Americans furious with
the Muslim world as a whole and with the Afghani government in particular, you would be hard-pressed to come up with an outrage more effective than this."
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