David Gorscyca Quotes
Consent is not a defense in the taking of the life of another.
David Gorscyca, Michigan Prosecutor who unsuccessfully prosecuted Dr. Jack Kavorkian, ABC This Week, November 29, 1998
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Description of one of his experiences in the Spanish American War.
The implication of this sura is that it is permissible to kill non-Muslims but not Muslims. The same is true of slavery. Another prescription of this sura is that a Muslim should never kill another Muslim, so while this sura is very discriminatory and in that sense reprehensible, it does call into question the Islamic terrorist practice of the late 20th and early 21st century of killing fellow Muslims who might vote, serve in an official role or cooperate with non-believers. And it definitely to the Western mind prohibits the kind of Islamic sectarian violent practice of Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims torturing and butchering each other—a practice that has continued since the two groups fought over who was the rightful successor to Muhammad. The religious rationale for that murderous behavior is that each Islamic group sees the other as apostate and therefore no longer real Muslims.
In the next two years 50,000 non-Jewish, ill Germans were killed in hospital gas chambers disguised as shower rooms as the Germans later did with the Jews in the concentration camps.
