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To: michael97123 who wrote (152076)11/19/2004 2:48:35 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
No, you are missing the point completely. Being devout has everything to do with serving god, not protecting buildings. In the end, I have to believe the first trumps the latter.

Inshallah: If God wills it -- a principal tenet.

Perhaps someone who follows Islam could step in here, but my view is simply this: A believer who feels he is involved in a holy battle against an enemy will accept any consequences, simply because all outcomes are "inshallah": If God wills it.

If someone believes their cause is just, they will do most anything.

Just look at Bush.

If you can't see the parallels then yes, we should stop discussing it.



To: michael97123 who wrote (152076)11/19/2004 3:54:49 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
We cannot profess friendship to Islam and then threaten to obliterate Mecca and Medina on account of bin Laden, making billions pay for his perfidiousness. Either no one will believe the deterrent, or, believing it, it will confirm our enmity to Islam, and be the start of a worse antagonism. But nice try.