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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (41878)	12/27/2001 10:10:42 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

If we think that our country made a mistake... I've made clear ad nauseum that I don't think that at all (concerning Hiroshima).. Muslims have no more obligation to apologize for them than you have to apologize for Charles Manson. Obligations are of varied sorts. Some are legal, some purely moral. In this case, I feel that Muslims do have an obligation to apologize. I say this on the basis of examining my own conscience with respect to my belief in Christianity. I can truly guarantee that had this act been committed by a renegade faction of fundamentalist Christians, I would be apologizing all over the place, at every opportunity, that such an atrocity had been committed in the name of my God. I do apologize for those historical and contemporary excesses carried out by fanatics in the name of my religion. I am ashamed of them and wish they had never occurred. As I just said to Jewel, it is not necessary to feel guilt in order to feel shame. I do wish Muslims everywhere would find in their hearts a moral obligation to be more outspoken and unambiguous in condemning a horrible crime perpetrated in the name of Allah.