Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Speaking Out Against the Cartoons is Freedom, Too
This article explains a lot in the way of most Muslim feeling about the cartoon issue.
I told Joe in my last post's comment section that I oppose the violence but understand the viewpoint of it, and I do stand behind what I said. I will be sorely disheartened if the Muslim world continues in this way. This is not what Prophet Mohamed taught, and counteracting an evil with another evil is simply wrong. It is unfortunate that it has taken something as childish as a bunch of thoughtless cartoons to set the world on fire, but those embers were already smoldering in the first place. Wouldn't it be nice, (and I'm not so brainless as to think it possible), if we could just understand one another?
"Allahuakbar" does not mean, "Go and kill the infidel" (as many Americans think it does). It means "God is the Greatest". I believe in this. Allahuakbar! And God does know the hearts of ALL of his people, Christians and Muslims alike. Only Allah knows what it will take to clean up the mess.
I told Joe in my last post's comment section that I oppose the violence but understand the viewpoint of it, and I do stand behind what I said. I will be sorely disheartened if the Muslim world continues in this way. This is not what Prophet Mohamed taught, and counteracting an evil with another evil is simply wrong. It is unfortunate that it has taken something as childish as a bunch of thoughtless cartoons to set the world on fire, but those embers were already smoldering in the first place. Wouldn't it be nice, (and I'm not so brainless as to think it possible), if we could just understand one another?
"Allahuakbar" does not mean, "Go and kill the infidel" (as many Americans think it does). It means "God is the Greatest". I believe in this. Allahuakbar! And God does know the hearts of ALL of his people, Christians and Muslims alike. Only Allah knows what it will take to clean up the mess.
