On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:22 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --snip-- > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the > teachings of Mohammed and Islam. > 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to > the Bible and the Word of God. I've read through the English text of the Quran 3 times, and while I've always heard that it's not the same as reading it in the original Arabic I would imagine that the difference in translation would not be great enough to leave out the bit about killing innocents. People will often scan through a single passage and think that it implies that it's ok to kill anyone who is a heathen. But the Quran specifically states that only those who would attack you, persecute you, or drive you from your homes are to be killed. "And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers." And I would add that the Islamic world has never done anything on the order of the Crusades... those carried out by so called God-fearing men who respect the bible. War mongers are war mongers regardless of which religion they practice and should be treated as such. p.s. Just for the record, I am not a Muslim. I'm a very happy atheist who disbelieves in God and Allah equally among all the other deities out there. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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