Pope Benedict and Islam
I recognize that Islam is made up of people and that some will be violent by nature and some will be peacful by nature and that both groups can find justification in their Koran for their violent or peaceful nature. It’s the same with my religion, Christianity. I also recognize that when outsiders point out certain things about one’s religion that isn’t so pretty that it’s real easy to get defensive.
Getting defensive is one thing. Getting violent is something else completely.
AN ITALIAN nun was killed by gunmen at a children’s hospital in Somalia yesterday in an apparent revenge attack for the Pope’s speech about Islam last week.
The Pope reads a passage from a 600 year old text that states that Islam is inherently violent and the response from some muslims is to prove the point? I’ve got to ask, what is everyone thinking? On top of this you also have Anjem Choudary over in London seeking the death penalty for the Pope and anyone else who insults Islam. What is all this suppose to make me think about Islam?
I need a new catagory, “Things I just don’t understand.”
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Bizarre, Politics, Religion | Larry D. Burton | 19 September 2006 |
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By Felix Miller, 9/19/2006 @ 10:52 pm
Larry said:
…the response from some muslims is to prove the point?
That was my reaction, exactly, to the riots and expressions of vengeance from Muslims. How completly their response matches the medieval text quoted by the Pope, who made it clear in context, and later in explanation, that such a sentiment did not reflect his views?
I hope for some common ground with Islam, and hope there is a Silent Majority there, who will sooner or later make their views known.
By Felix Miller, 9/22/2006 @ 4:33 pm
No, I don’t understand it either. One of the explanations pundits keep offering for these outbursts of irrational violence is that most Muslims are increasingly aware of their marginalization in the world, and even in their own countries. Reaction to any slight, however far removed, taps into the incohate rage simmering below their impoverished (in every way, not just wealth) state.
How unfortunate that they cannot realize that their lives are in their own hands, not those of the pope, or Danish cartoonists, or financial market employees working in New York.