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[denizaksulu]

I've often thought that for all the difference this war has made, they might as well have left Saddam in charge. But no point in blaming the West for these Christian massacres; with or without Western intervention, they'd have got around to murdering Christians. Such is the nature of the religion of "peace".

This is all sad. However it was the religion of peace that enabled for Jews and Christians to live side by side for all these centuries. How else can one explain the presence of these ancient communities in the Middle east and North Africa? It is mankinds own actions that do these horrible things and nothing to do with religion. It is the polarisation of the super powers that have corrupted mans mind. Is there a way back 'God' only knows. Please dont ask which God. I am doubting his existence as the days go by. IMHO.

I am sure some will disagree, but then we are human.

The savagery of these groups of people cannot be condoned though. How do we stop them - Perhaps 'the horse has already bolted through the stable doors'. Do we hunt them down or what?

[Linichka]

No denying that for some time, countries of the Middle East and North Africa did coexist relatively peacefully with Jews and Christians, though the latter suffered certain discrimination. And in the 20th century, Jews were expelled, property confiscated by most (though not all) of these countries in their outrage at Israel's creation and continued existence.

But I'm with you, the whole affair is sad and ominous and threatens everybody. What can or should be done to contain this, no idea. Nothing seems to be working well.

Deniz, I hope you do not let the sickening actions of select groups of human beings interfere with your own faith in God and beliefs. He is there, I believe - just probably distancing Himself from his creation, which He must regret immensely.

[denizaksulu]

No denying that for some time, countries of the Middle East and North Africa did coexist relatively peacefully with Jews and Christians, though the latter suffered certain discrimination. And in the 20th century, Jews were expelled, property confiscated by most (though not all) of these countries in their outrage at Israel's creation and continued existence.

But I'm with you, the whole affair is sad and ominous and threatens everybody. What can or should be done to contain this, no idea. Nothing seems to be working well.

Deniz, I hope you do not let the sickening actions of select groups of human beings interfere with your own faith in God and beliefs. He is there, I believe - just probably distancing Himself from his creation, which He must regret immensely.

Indeed the 'abyss' between me and the creator as defined by the 'books' is growing by the day.

I trust mankind more than religion. It is mankind that need to 'live and let live'. Religion has been abused by those in power to their own ends.

[Lit]

Jihadi Video: Islamist Terrorists Threaten to Kill Christians in Egypt and Elsewhere in the Middle East


On November 17, the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported the burning of ten Christian houses in a southern Egyptian town following rumors of an affair between a Christian man and a Muslim woman. This follows a November 7, 2010, video purported to be from the "Brigade of Martyrs" of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI),posted on Jihadist websites, threatening Christians in Egypt and around the Middle East.[1]

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4772.htm

[Lit]

Swedish suicide bomber in Iraq

National News | 2010-11-19
The Swedish 36-year-old went to Iraq - to die as a martyr for the terrorist group The Islamic State of Iraq. In the city of Mosul, he blew himself up and killed several people. Back home in Sweden he left his wife and four children.

http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=6298

[Lit]

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/i ... K620101119

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire during Friday prayers at a mosque in a northeastern Nigeria, killing at least two people in the latest in a series of attacks by a radical Islamist sect.

Three people were shot at during the prayers at Gomari ward in Maiduguri, killing two, while a third person was receiving treatment at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

[Lit]

Christian woman faces death for blasphemy

By NBC's Carol Grisanti and Fakhar ur Rehman

ITTAN WALLI, Pakistan – In early November, in the dusty city of Sheikhupura in Pakistan’s heartland, Asia Bibi, an illiterate Christian woman and mother of five, was sentenced to death by hanging under the country’s blasphemy laws.

Her crime? She allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... -blasphemy

[Schnauzer]

Christian woman faces death for blasphemy

By NBC's Carol Grisanti and Fakhar ur Rehman

ITTAN WALLI, Pakistan – In early November, in the dusty city of Sheikhupura in Pakistan’s heartland, Asia Bibi, an illiterate Christian woman and mother of five, was sentenced to death by hanging under the country’s blasphemy laws.

Her crime? She allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... -blasphemy

If it be mandatory to respect the name of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) and punishable by death for insulting his name (or tenets) in a country where such is the Law, how does it become so objectionable if a person who breaks the Law, has to face the consequences meted BY the Law ?.

Jesus Christ insulted nobody, yet suffered a far more horrendous fate than hanging.

[Linichka]

Maybe because she was convicted by hearsay only.

[Me Ed]

Christian woman faces death for blasphemy

By NBC's Carol Grisanti and Fakhar ur Rehman

ITTAN WALLI, Pakistan – In early November, in the dusty city of Sheikhupura in Pakistan’s heartland, Asia Bibi, an illiterate Christian woman and mother of five, was sentenced to death by hanging under the country’s blasphemy laws.

Her crime? She allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... -blasphemy

If it be mandatory to respect the name of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) and punishable by death for insulting his name (or tenets) in a country where such is the Law, how does it become so objectionable if a person who breaks the Law, has to face the consequences meted BY the Law ?.

Jesus Christ insulted nobody, yet suffered a far more horrendous fate than hanging.

I suppose that's very easy to say from the comfort of your own liberal democracy.