Elie Wiesel Quotes
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
Most Hindus did not heed the Mahatma. The ones that did died for nothing. There was no moral compunction from the Muslims who had been conditioned to believe that they were doing a holy thing by protecting Islam. Many Hindus retaliated in kind to Gandhi's distress, butchering Muslim families. Over 2 million Indians did in the internecine butchery around the Indian partition and the creation of Pakistan.
This statement differs from the view espoused by many Muslims in regards to Christians. See {590207}.
Followers of the religious views of January Hus, 1369-1415 Hus was excommunicated and executed for his views that parts of the church were corrupt.
Muslims had engaged in violent demonstrations to insist on more Sharia law and the curtailment of behavior that the Muslim Mullahs determined to be contrary to Sharia and Islam. In Nigeria Muslim violence and intimidation had at the time already caused one of the Nigerian states to adopt Sharia instead of civil law. Many Muslims continued the violence in order to spread the adoption of Islamic law. In most counties, there were threats of law enforcement crackdowns to curtail the Muslim violence and attacks on Christians and other religions. In Nigeria however, the Christians under Akinola’s leadership made this not so subtle veiled threat to retaliate. It seems to have worked in the short run although the religious tensions remained very high and no one knew whether or not religious violence or even war would break out.
He led an Islamic rebellion against the Quinn Dynasty which ended in his beheading in 1873. Since the Christians were also a minority, he tried to form an alliance with them. Hatred of Christians is not endemic to Islam—politics affect the situation also. His tomb is shown in the graphic.
Islam was not very strong at this point and the followers of Muhammad were relatively few and the Medina area contained Arab Non-Believers, Jews as well as the new Muslims. Muhammad drew up this document and got the non Muslims to agree to it. Not only were Jews able to practice their religion freely (as were the non-Muslim Arabs) but there was not tax on the non Muslims that was imposed later when the Muslims were much stronger relative to others. Also, which surprises many Jews and Muslims alike, the Community – the Ulma – the People included the Jews and Arab Non Believers. Today it is only the Muslims.
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
