Juxtaposition
From the Dakar Declaration of the 2008 OIC summit.
Our faith in such a strategic option for the quest for peace in that part of the world [Basra? No. Kashmir? No. Darfur? No.]…illustrates our strict adherence to the values of Islam, a religion of peace that forbids all forms of exclusivity and extremism and that warrants the following quotation “You have been made a Prophet only to restore peace in the world”, which is based on a verse from the Holy Quran.
From the report on Saudi textbooks.
A Muslim is forbidden to love and aid the unbelieving enemies of God…They are the people of the Sabbath, whose young people God turned into apes, and whose old people God turned into swine to punish them…Narrated by Abu Hurayrah: The Prophet said, The hour [of judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. [It will not come] until the Jew hides behind rocks and trees. [It will not come] until the rocks or the trees say, ‘O Muslim! O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.’ Except for the gharqad, which is a tree of the Jews.”
A religion of peace that forbids all forms of exclusivity! As we see every day. You bet.
I find these things so gut-wrenchingly awful that I sometimes say too much, too quickly, with too much anger. But, I mean, really! And we are not supposed to say or doing anything which might upset them!
All fantasies and other complex systems of belief encourage this kind of inconsistency. Eloquent examples are the so-called pro-life-istas of the US who wail piously about embryos and fetuses but allow living women to die and living children to starve to death without raising a finger. And the ones who practice the death penalty.
It’s just part of the deal with those dang upsetting Religions of the Earth.
Claire I agree there is something rather ludicrous about wanting to protect a small cluster of cells but having no problem with the state santioned execution of fully grown people. Although I am at a loss to understand what you mean by allowing women and children to starve to death who are you refering to and what people have they allowed to starve to death? could you give me a concrete example please?