Lester Spence asks these questions:
juliette i'm not that familiar with the qu'ran. could you give me a citation for your reference?
could you also tell me if this type of activity is a constant over the history of the region? if we go back to 1905 for example, would we see someone lynched then?
finally, could you tell me how lynching and mass terrorism against african americans was able to continue for a full 100 years, without reference to the judeo-christian ethic?Are Muslims following the tenets of their religion or ignoring same?
Let's turn it around. During the heyday of white American terrorism of black Americans in the South, were white American Christians following the tenets of their religion or ignoring them? If the latter was true, it isn't too hard to figure it out how it could be so: the same way that present-day Christians ignore the tenets of their religion. You may be familiar with some of the "lesser" ways: lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery, dishonoring ones parents, etc. Or even worse, twisting the tenets of their religion to suit their own purposes.
This last sort of behavior shouldn't have to be explained to anyone who steps out of his/her door in the morning. And failure to live up to one's professed standards or twisting those standards to self-serving purposes isn't a failing unique to those who are religious.
"The hearts of men are evil beyond measure."
It took men of Christian (and Jewish) faith, black men and others, to shame the bulk of white Americans into living up to the ideals they professed to revere and cherish, whether it was “love thy neighbor as thyself” or the idea spawned from that, “all Men are created equal.”
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Back to your first question: does it matter whether it started 35 years ago or three years ago? Here’s my point: there is nothing in Islamic doctrine that can be used to shame the Islamists to stop using terror to attempt to achieve their aims. No Dr. Malik Shakir will come out of the Mosque holding up Muhammad as the "Prince of Peace" who commanded believers to turn the other cheek or take the two-by-four out of his own eye first. Why not? This is why.
“Slay the infidels wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush. (Koran 9:5)
Fight against those who believe not in Allah, and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth [Islam], until they are subdued. (Surat At-Taubah 9:29)
Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. (Koran 2: 98)Again, Muslims who who terrorize, lynch and burn are merely living up to their credo, not ignoring or going against it. That's why (besides fear of other Muslims) you haven't seen any Muslims in large numbers publicly repudiating terror. (There are one billion Muslims, right?)
As a wise person said, when someone tells you that they want to kill you, believe them.
