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Don

Don — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

What’s with these psychos? I am all for peaceful religious practices, but it is simply sick. Can I feel safe around religious people? I mean, how do I know if that believer - mostly the monotheistic ones - will cut me up out of some religious conviction or not?

Colin

Colin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I think Islam as a religion is dangerous and whether radical or not, still not compatible with Western democracy and liberties. Rather like many movements before, such as Nazism, it is liable to render the adherents susceptible to acts that would in other situations, not occur.

Unlike Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and numerous other religions, Islam does not have the golden rule of respect for fellow mankind. It’s a faith, that in its multiple teachings, whether in the Quran or Ahadith, proscribes intolerance and violence. Remember too, the rules of abrogation and the chronology of the verses between Medina and Mecca.

Col

Col — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, it sheds a bad light on Islam.

Will I draw the conclusion Islam == Evil, Muslim == Murderous Folks?

Not really. Probably because I know a few Muslim, who are great guys and sick of this whole business of going all hardcore - it’s like interpreting the Old Testament literally again.

Sean

Sean — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

There are a lot of mentally ill among the Christian extremists - the “chattel farms” in the US with the rape and polygamy, the “we have to extend the rule of the Lord Jesus” and “love Jesus like the Hitler-jugend loved Hitler” kind of preachers.

Yes, sadly there are more such acts in the Middle-East, Pakistan, and Africa where the government and the religion are not separated - and of course at every group where the priests are in power.

It is more difficult for a religious group to grab the power in plain sight where the secularization is a tradition - although they try really hard.

Wa'd

Wa'd — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

As a Muslim she had no right to file for divorce?

well, In Arab countries, or let me say, at least in Jordan, I’ve heard of a couple of cases where Christian women converted into Islam just to get a divorce, as Jordanian Christians don’t really get a divorce when they wish so.

Now I guess there are psychos everywhere... and this was one of them...:)

Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

To make a difference, I think more Muslims should come out and condemn such acts indeed. Unfortunately, too few do, whether through fear or complicity.

Nuya Bidness

Nuya Bidness — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

No right to a divorce? He probably meant she had no complaint that justified a divorce. If she said it was because he was beating her, then he would have said he was well withing his rights to beat her beacuse the Quran 4:34 says.....

{Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property. So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.}

See, he had his rights to scream at her, kick her out of bed, and beat her.

I don’t make this stuff up, it just comes that strange.

Lynne K

Lynne K — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Amazing story, very interesting.

I just find it abhorent the thought of hacking off someones head, let alone one’s own wife, having shared intimate moments together, kissed each other, ok they didn’t get along any more but then to hack off her head..... sick .... sick... sick.