…there is ALWAYS more to the story!
There is always extremism in every religion…Islam or Christianity. We need to maintain CALM heads and this could be the tip of a very UGLY iceberg!
There is more to this story that we have to responsibly release. This is NOT about “gotcha”. I spoke about this kind of “journalism” in my last post and this is an extreme situation. I assure you that we know details behind the scene that will come out…but it serves none of us to jump the gun and try to get the “story”.
Most Islamics that are peace-loving, just like the majority of Christians. And both have their own version of “extremist” jihadists.
DO NOT extrapolate this to an overshadowing conspiracy! The fringe of fanatics that sidle up to the “teabaggers”, Palin’s politics, and Political Dominionism…are not ALL of like mind. But they do make strange bedfellows in their attack against all-things-Obama.
In their twisted minds…a trigger like this could incite horrific violence and we need to dig deep to get the reality of this situation.
PLEASE…employ reason….Puuulease…
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I am fed up of christian and muslim apologetics claiming that there religion is not evil. Just read your holy books people, to see what type of god you are following . How often do you see them standing up to the extreme fringes – never, because the holy books are not on their side. So you get people saying its apocryphal, and you need theology to discern the truth (putting power into the hands of priests and clerics – which the koran explicitly bans.) Please banish this mindless drivel back to the dawn of man.
OH! Let's do this together! I am soooo with YOU!! Thank you…thank you…
OT, but not… there is a very thoughtful post on Frozen Justice which ties in with the expected spin by the military on the Ft. Hood shootings. The shooter, a psychologist, was born Palestinian and is a moslem. May logical thought processes prevail within those in the military who will handle this disaster.
Yes, something like this could become one of those horrific triggers you/we fear. May I be wrong.
Great comment, silverspirit 2001! What these individuals do is use the Koran and the Bible to promote their personal agendas.
Leah, I was reading the story on HuffPo written by Kamran Pasha, a filmmaker who interviewed "Richard", a Muslim soldier at Ft. Hood TX who knew the shooter Nidal Hasan.
About a third of the way down the online story, Pasha writes of Nidal Hasan's political views, and Hasan's association with a mullah who's "been accused by the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 of serving as a 'spiritual advisor' to two of the September 11 hijackers" — the Yemeni scholar Anwar Al-Awlaki.
This part of Pasha's article struck me, as to how much it reads like what we've seen of the dominionists you've written about, the right wing fundamentalists who have been tunneling their way into positions of power in our country:
"While Richard is careful to say that he respects much of Awlaki’s historical scholarship, he rejects his political ideology, which posits a black-and-white, us versus them, view of America’s relationship with the Islamic world.
Richard’s own study of Islam has revealed that such a harsh dualistic approach to religion is very much against the history of Islamic thought and practice. Indeed, debate is central to the Islamic tradition, and mainstream Muslims have always understood that true faith requires openness to nuance and subtlety."
"…this kind of subtlety is anathema to fundamentalists of any religion or ideology, who are incapable of seeing other points of view. And the backlash against my book by Muslim fundamentalists reveals the deep-seated fear that such people have of mainstream Muslims’ efforts to take back the discourse from those who cannot accept shades of grey in life and faith."
Scarily similar, eh?
Very scary! And you are right, there is no difference. That is what I was trying to point out – that there are extremists in both religions. This is why I constantly say that I am not anti-Christian…I am anti-extremist! And I fear for the safety of innocent Muslims when something like this occurs. The level of ignorance in some fringes of our country don't understand anything about other faiths, and buy into the dangerous rhetoric that all Muslims are evil.
Wouldn't it be great if we could sequester the extremists on both sides and let them battle it out with each other where none of the rest of us would get caught in the crossfire?
When this story broke i immediately thought of you Leah. This is not something to take lightly.
I doubt that i will believe the armys discription of what happened. I am very scared for those in the Islamic communities across the US. I do not follow a religion. But those that do should not be hurt by media hype.My heart goes out to all.