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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (9601)	1/21/2002 1:56:38 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Separating the Taliban from religion, and then separating the law from Christianity. The Taliban engaged in terrorism, which is against their law. And, we live in a Day of Grace, or higher reasoning, and not an age of the law. For instance, pork is not only acceptable food, it is delicious. I especially love Sonny Bryan's BBQ pork ribs. -- hirabah there is a crime in Islamic law known as hirabah, which he defined as "killing by stealth and targeting a defenseless victim in a way intended to cause terror in society." An important point for the United States, he noted, is that those who commit hirabah are considered in the same category as pirates and may be tried in foreign courts. washingtonpost.com In Islamic law, terrorism (hirabah) is considered cowardly, predatory and a grand sin punishable by death. Classical Islamic law explicitly prohibits the taking or slaying of hostages or diplomats even in retaliation against unlawful acts by the enemy. Furthermore, it prohibits stealth or indiscriminate attacks against enemies, Muslim or non-Muslim. One can even say that classical jurists considered such acts to be contrary to the ethics of Arab chivalry and therefore fundamentally cowardly. siliconinvestor.com.