Posted on 08/20/2007 8:48:40 AM PDT by Abathar
It does not suprise me that Ms. Amanpour will do anything to put Christianity with Islam into a bad light.
Minnie Mouse Saves Sarajevo - Christiane Imam-Poor
Does anyone have a schedule on these programs?
DUH........try reading the article doofus.
1400 yr of un-nuanced Jihad is enough.
We're trying to be on our best behavior or BOR will impose censors. ;-)
Uhhhhh.....they aren't shot in the back of the head if they don't??
Muslim Extremists - Boom
Christian Extremists - No Boom
Jewish Extemists - No Boom
One of these is a problem. The other two are annoyances.
He was personally attacking himself. No harm there...
I think your answer is below:
"Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble, because it was about standing up and rejecting tyranny, rejecting injustice and rejecting oppression and, if necessary, dying for that."
Or one of THOSE extremists would make the other two look like boy scouts/girl scouts.
Christiane Iamawhore
I think in the end BOR will have a needed good chuckle reading the posts. ;-)
Amanpour with special guest commentator Michael Ware. Amanpour and Ware will be giving a demonstrations of how sexual intercourse is performed while both wearing full burkas.
“Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.” 3 Jo 1:11
Or let the 1400 year record speak for itself.
Occasional Jewish and Christian extremists go Boom.
The difference is that they are promptly and roundly rejected by essentially all other members of their faiths. Many if not most Muslims approve of Muslim boomers, or at least make excuses for them.
I just finished a book about the era of British control of Palestine. There were lots of Jewish booms during that period.
"To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs," she said. "Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble, because it was about standing up and rejecting tyranny, rejecting injustice and rejecting oppression and, if necessary, dying for that."
Martyrdom has never been strapping bombs to your chest, walking into a marketplace in peace time, and killing and injuring as many innocent passersby as you can. There is NOTHING honorable about that.
Suffering persecution and refusing to denounce your faith as you are tortured to death or thrown to the lions for entertainment IS martyrdom. You die, no one else does, and you stood by your beliefs.
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