It Only Takes One To Make A War

Just like on the school playground, or between nations, in matters religious it only takes one to make a fight. It seems clear that Muslims world wide have no interest in good relations between the world’s great religions. How far the mighty have fallen. Once the best of the best in creative expression of reason and thought, Islam has driven reason into a slime pit. When recognition of a desire for world wide religious domination is taken into consideration, this makes a kind of sense. Islam, emboldened by coffers fattened on oil money, is determined to pick a fight.

It is simply too easy to say that most Muslims are aware that violence is an inappropriate way to protest accusations that Islam is a faith based on violence. That does not bring Sister Leonella Sgorbati with 40 years of service to humanity, murdered with a hail of bullets in a teaching medical school in Mogadishu, Somolia, back to life. That does not turn back the clock on the fire-bombing of seven Christian Churches in Palestine.
Are we, in the interests of Political Correctness, to call these behaviors “incidents” and quietly bury the ignored dead?

Pakistan's parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Pope's speech. Either Muslims are insecure in their own faith, or somehow doubt its own foundations. Why else would they care what anyone, even a Pope, says about their religion? I have my own doubts about the reasoning behind the Pope’s lecture, but he owes no one an apology. If Moslems have feelings that tender, then something else is involved, and as I told my daughter when she had similar problems when she was six years old, she shouldn‘t wear her feelings on her sleeve.

I’ve read that many Muslims feel that they are under attack by the West. This is irrational. This is just as irrational as the call in Turkey for the arrest of the Pope. What kind of an idiot would propose such a thing? They are angry because the Pope suggested that Islam is touched by a stench of death and violence and irrationality? Just the few “incidents” mentioned above are enough to prove to any rational person that the Pope was quite correct in that part of his lecture. Need we discuss cartoons?

I think that a plea for a more complete lecture that included references to all religion’s connections, including Christianity, and the Catholic Church in particular, to violence and murder and death would have been more appropriate. Of course, this is true only if in fact you feel that religion should espouse the idea that violence is incompatible with the nature of God and that it should be rejected.

In the quest for balance, what if Islam is correct? Perhaps violence, murder and death are an appropriate expression of religious faith? Perhaps spread of a religion, a method of worship of God, is appropriately accomplished by war? Perhaps forced conversions are perfectly AOK with God? Does God care one way or another? Once the whole world is conquered, and all the world calls God, Allah and dusts their faces five times a day, peace and brotherhood will prevail.

Right. If you believe that . . .

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