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To: Ilaine who wrote (113858)5/16/2005 11:38:54 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) of 793921
 
I think it is perfectly foreseeable that Muslims would riot and kill upon learning of Koran desecrations at Guantanamo.

There are lots of subtle reasons why we may be puzzled at the Muslim reaction which has little to do with our perceptions of what is and what is not reasonable. A few of these reasons include shame that the flower of Islamic militancy is under our control in an unassailable prison; the fact that the desecration may have been done as part of an effort to interrogate; the fact that the Koran enjoys IMO a higher status in Islam than the Bible does in Christianity; the fact that Islam is indubitably a much more violent religion than any global mainstream religion, etc.

But the fact that the reaction is perfectly foreseeable does in no way justify it. No one should die because someone allegedly desecrated a holy thing or committed adultery or is an "apostate" or a Jew. No one should ever be killed in the name of religion. Of course, this conflicts with many of Islam's core tenets.
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