Keep It To Yourself
Here's a case of the blind leading the blind...right over a cliff! Bible-thumping Christians the world over are quick to point out that it's barbaric to execute poor Abdul Rahman for believing Jesus Christ and not Mohammad shall lead him to Salvation. Here's a sampling of Islamic reasoning as told by a Bible-thumping publication:
Rahman was put on trial in Kabul last week for the “crime” of converting from Islam to Christianity and faces the death penalty for refusing to return to the Muslim faith. But news of his case did not break until March 16, when Ariana TV announced it. According to the TV newscaster, Rahman was asked in court, “Do you confess that you have apostacized from Islam?” The defendant answered, “No, I am not an apostate. I believe in God.”
“We are Muslims, and becoming a Christian is against our laws,” the prosecutor concluded. “He must get the death penalty.” Rahman is being tried by Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada, who has said he would issue a verdict on the case within two months. “We are not against any particular religion in the world,” the judge told the AP on March 19. “But in Afghanistan, this sort of thing is against the law. It is an attack on Islam.”
You also read stuff like this:
The U.S.-led toppling of Saddam Hussein, who limited the establishment of new denominations, has altered the religious landscape of predominantly Muslim Iraq. A newly energized Christian evangelical activism here, supported by Western and other foreign evangelicals, is now challenging the dominance of Iraq's long-established Christian denominations and drawing complaints from Muslim and Christian religious leaders about a threat to the status quo.
...and so you have to wonder why people get so bent out of shape over the notion of "conversion." These wackos should be content that they're saving their own souls and leave everybody else the hell alone -- like the Buddha. At least Christianity's founder behaved nothing like his followers are now behaving; the same cannot be said for the reckless death dealing being meted out courtesy of Islam. Ibn Warraq pointed out in an interview just after 9/11 that "Maxime Rodinson, the great French Islamologue, said that violence is "existentially" Islam, that's the word he used, meaning fundamentalism is somehow an essential consequence of Islam itself."
And our Nazi pope thinks an invigorated Islam is a safer bet than unbelief? When will all of this madness end... and more significantly: How?
Rahman was put on trial in Kabul last week for the “crime” of converting from Islam to Christianity and faces the death penalty for refusing to return to the Muslim faith. But news of his case did not break until March 16, when Ariana TV announced it. According to the TV newscaster, Rahman was asked in court, “Do you confess that you have apostacized from Islam?” The defendant answered, “No, I am not an apostate. I believe in God.”
“We are Muslims, and becoming a Christian is against our laws,” the prosecutor concluded. “He must get the death penalty.” Rahman is being tried by Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada, who has said he would issue a verdict on the case within two months. “We are not against any particular religion in the world,” the judge told the AP on March 19. “But in Afghanistan, this sort of thing is against the law. It is an attack on Islam.”
You also read stuff like this:
The U.S.-led toppling of Saddam Hussein, who limited the establishment of new denominations, has altered the religious landscape of predominantly Muslim Iraq. A newly energized Christian evangelical activism here, supported by Western and other foreign evangelicals, is now challenging the dominance of Iraq's long-established Christian denominations and drawing complaints from Muslim and Christian religious leaders about a threat to the status quo.
...and so you have to wonder why people get so bent out of shape over the notion of "conversion." These wackos should be content that they're saving their own souls and leave everybody else the hell alone -- like the Buddha. At least Christianity's founder behaved nothing like his followers are now behaving; the same cannot be said for the reckless death dealing being meted out courtesy of Islam. Ibn Warraq pointed out in an interview just after 9/11 that "Maxime Rodinson, the great French Islamologue, said that violence is "existentially" Islam, that's the word he used, meaning fundamentalism is somehow an essential consequence of Islam itself."
And our Nazi pope thinks an invigorated Islam is a safer bet than unbelief? When will all of this madness end... and more significantly: How?
posted by jp at 22:55
1 Comments:
Good post.
Judaism also discourages conversion. To some you can only be Jewish, if your mother is also.
I found your blog at maryam's.
Regards.
Post a Comment
<< Home