A Tiny Voice of Reason...
...Squeaks out of the Whinerverse.
What Would Mohammed Do sums up nicely my other view on the Moslem use of violence in response to just about everything (I am not blind to the fact that factionicide is a not uncommon practice) that displeases them: This is not the way to make converts to your beliefs or cause, dummy!
I must say that I have the same belief about Jesus, that nice Jewish boy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd. While he purportedly got overly testy with the currency traders at the temple (really, now, how else were foreign pilgrims going to pay the Temple staff for tributes and sacrifices if they couldn't get their money changed?), and while he may have been a bit of a goody two-shoes on the one hand, he did hang out with an interesting crowd living in interesting times. That alone indicates he had to have more of a sense of humor and diplomacy in dealing with most people than the humorless "It's my way or you're going straight to Hell" pontificating of the Christian right.
(That probably offended those Christians who did actually watch the short-lived Book Of Daniel, whose portrayal of Jesus was of a nice, supportive guy trying to guide Daniel when Daniel was having trouble doing the right thing. Kind of like a good friend would be, only without all the religious blather, laying on of guilt and threats of hellfire.)
Just so ya'll know, I do recognize that not every Moslem out there is hiding a bomb under his burnoose. And I even get their desire to keep a low profile. But as the insane and out of control fanatic side of Islam keeps making headlines with their destructive acts, at some point, the other Moslems out there have got to stand up and be counted.
"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when theycame for me , there was no one left to speak out for me."
-- Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
Once all the Christians and Jews and other non-Moslems are gone, who will the Islamic fanatics go after next?
What Would Mohammed Do sums up nicely my other view on the Moslem use of violence in response to just about everything (I am not blind to the fact that factionicide is a not uncommon practice) that displeases them: This is not the way to make converts to your beliefs or cause, dummy!
I must say that I have the same belief about Jesus, that nice Jewish boy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd. While he purportedly got overly testy with the currency traders at the temple (really, now, how else were foreign pilgrims going to pay the Temple staff for tributes and sacrifices if they couldn't get their money changed?), and while he may have been a bit of a goody two-shoes on the one hand, he did hang out with an interesting crowd living in interesting times. That alone indicates he had to have more of a sense of humor and diplomacy in dealing with most people than the humorless "It's my way or you're going straight to Hell" pontificating of the Christian right.
(That probably offended those Christians who did actually watch the short-lived Book Of Daniel, whose portrayal of Jesus was of a nice, supportive guy trying to guide Daniel when Daniel was having trouble doing the right thing. Kind of like a good friend would be, only without all the religious blather, laying on of guilt and threats of hellfire.)
Just so ya'll know, I do recognize that not every Moslem out there is hiding a bomb under his burnoose. And I even get their desire to keep a low profile. But as the insane and out of control fanatic side of Islam keeps making headlines with their destructive acts, at some point, the other Moslems out there have got to stand up and be counted.
"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when they
-- Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
Once all the Christians and Jews and other non-Moslems are gone, who will the Islamic fanatics go after next?
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