Murder Has No Religion

Message 1148 of 5998

While many have been quick to condemn all muslims after the shooting at Ft. Hood, attributing Maj. Hassam's act as the mindset of all those who follow Islam, the following quote from the Quoran, which the overwhelming majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims follow:

"Anyone who kills a human being ... it shall be as though he has killed all of mankind. ... If anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he has saved the lives of all of mankind."
Accordingly, it should come as little surprise to any reasonable observer that when Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan recently committed his shocking acts of mass murder at Fort Hood, Texas, America's Muslim community of over 7 million felt an added sense of horror and sadness at this senseless attack against the brave men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

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True to form, many conservative media pundits wasted little time in pointing to reports that Hasan had said "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great") at the start of his murderous rampage. News coverage continuously showed the looping convenience store black-and-white videotape footage of Hasan wearing traditional white Islamic garb.

First of all, someone simply saying "Allahu Akbar" while committing an act of mass murder no more makes their criminal act "Islamic" than a Christian uttering the "Hail Mary" while murdering an abortion medical provider, or someone chanting "Onward, Christian Soldiers" while bombing a gay nightclub, would make their act "Christian" in nature.

Simply put; murder is murder and has no religion whatsoever.

posted by GothamGal

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historically religion & murder go hand in hand. In this case of fort hood i hae no idea.

posted by yichel
over 2 years ago

Tell that to Osama and our soldiers. I'm first in line to say we should not be in the middle east. But.....muslims are what they are, religeous idiots!

posted by elchucko1
over 2 years ago

I feel that way about most people in general. I guess I believe in m8ulticultural idiocy

posted by yichel
over 2 years ago

I don't believe either who answered has read the link. Elchuko, you could not make that statement if you had.

posted by GothamGal
over 2 years ago

Please tell me an avowed Christian never murdered a heathen/atheist.... Jew.... or black....

posted by Tripshaft
over 2 years ago

One of my co-workers is a Muslim. Friday there was no school and she was grateful because she feared that her kids would have been picked on by other kids following this incident. It has happened before. When President OBama won the election and rumors that he was a Muslim was going around. This is the state of ignorance flowing through this country, perpetuated by those who are ignorant. The good news is that it mostly surfaces from old farts that have always been minority intolerant. Perhaps killing grand ma and pa is not such a bad idea? I'm just kidding of course, but watch the crazies run with it.
Great thread by the way GG.

posted by Charles1950
over 2 years ago

Yes, a good point was made in the article,

"Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan once wrote that,

"One most certainly does insult Muslims by tying their religion to movements such as terrorism or fascism. Muslims perceive a double standard in this regard: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols would never be called 'Christian terrorists' even though they were in close contact with the Christian Identity Movement. No one would speak of Christo-fascism or Judeo-fascism as the Republican[s] ... speak of Islam-o-fascism. ... [Many people also] point out that [it was] persons of Christian heritage [who] invented fascism, not Muslims."

posted by GothamGal
over 2 years ago

One murdering sick MF'er does not a terrorist conspiracy make.

That's all I got to say until this individual says otherwise or indisputable evidence comes front and center to prove me wrong.

posted by pancho3
over 2 years ago

First,Timothy Mc Veigh and Terry Nichols were two of how many who killed innocent people for their political ideology? I keep hearing the same two names over and over and over and over because there are very few. The Radical Muslims number in the hundreds of thousands. That is one big difference.

Second, I think what we experience with radical Islam is not so much religious as it is cultural. It is entwined. The extremists are political.

Third, fanaticism is the enemy, and many of the fanatics who want to wipe American and Israel off the face of the earth happen to Muslim extremists.

I don't think I am being a hater by reasoning in this way. It makes logical sense to me, and I am not branding an entire religion. I am branding the crazy terrorists and the horrible culture that beheads people and enslaves and abuses women. These things are real.

I don't think Hasan was part of a conspiracy. I think he was a religious fanatic.

The right wing NUTS are just as nutty as the Muslim zealots, and what they say and do cannot be taken seriously.

posted by crestofwaves
over 2 years ago

I have not heard one word against Muslims in general, either in or out of the military. Don't forget that I live in TX.....land of the quick assumption with slow thoughts to follow.

I'm with Pancho on this one and currently see no fire worth fanning into a blaze. It's bad enough given the limited facts we have.