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| Iranian Journalist Explains the Tenets of Jihad |
| 2004-05-15 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Nearly spilled my ice-water on the computer when I read the line about avoiding war by inviting them to pay that protection money. Say what you will about Christianity's "turn the other cheek" philosophy - I go with the "just war" theory myself, since I equate complete pacifism, which some of my friends embrace, with suicide - but the fact is that it is not an inherently violent religion. You want to talk about submission, talk about Jesus being crucified. I won't deny that Christians have done some terrible things in previous centuries, but I would argue that on the whole we have learned from those mistakes. But Muslims have a built-in mechanism for fighting each other, that whole jihad-against-the-non-Muslim-Muslims thing, and that by itself means the system is going to be abused. And from just looking at history - the sheer number of murders, Muslims murdering Muslims - it's pretty clear that the loophole was exploited. Hell, three of their four "rightly-guided" caliphs were murdered, and that's in less than a century after the Profit's death. So don't give me any of this jihad-can-be-good crap. It's nothing more than an excuse. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-15 10:25:32 PM |