From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Re: Jihad in Islam (was Re:Islam Revealed #1
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:07:28 GMT

In article arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>In article d89-gsk@nada.kth.se (Gani Skepi) writes:

>>A Muslim Scholar by the name Ahmed Deedad (may the doors of Paradise 
>>always be open to him) told NBC and ABC in the US that if he was given 
>>*ONLY* 5 min to explain about the *TRUE* case with Rushdie he would give 
>>them 50 000 $.
>>They *REFUSED*!!!!!!!

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>The Koran may actually say that your prophet's wives should not be insulted.
>But the Koran does not go on to say that if someone does insult them, that
>person should be killed.  The "kill" part does not come from the Koran, it
>comes from you, and so you can't use Koran quotes to support it.

>>Btw the "death penalty " wasn't given at once.  6 months *BEFORE* Saudi-,
>>Egyptian-, Algerian-, Jordanian, and other newspapers told Rushdie that he
>>should take that book back, several of times.

>You react as though it should make the least bit of difference that Rushdie
>was given a chance to repent first.  You don't get it.  To us, killing someone
>because of a book is *wrong*.  There is no excuse for it.  It doesn't matter
>how big the insult is, and it doesn't matter that they didn't take it back when
>they had a chance to--killing someone for writing a book is wrong, regardless.
>These things make no difference; there is no point in trying to convince me
>that it was a really, _really_, bad insult, because convincing me that the
>insult is a really bad one would not convince me that it is right to kill.


And let me add that if Islam is the true religion, then Allah will have the
last say anyway on Rushdie for his "blasphemy".  I wouldn't be surprised if
the Quran teaches that his punishment by Allah for this particular "sin"
(if he dies before "repenting") will be infinitely worse than the punishment
that could be meted out by man.  So why not be satisfied that Allah will have
the last judgement anyway, and let it go at that.

I realize that he offended the sensibilities of many devout Moslems, but
there are times when you just got to take the punches and move on in life.
Who knows, maybe Allah allowed this book to be written to be a test of the
faith of those who believe in him?  And I would assert that those who blindly
call for the execution of Rushdie have *failed* the test.

Jon Noring


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