Trent Lott Quotes
Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
There is of course no way to tell the sect of a Muslim by physique alone, although there are major behavioral differences. The reason the quotation was newsworthy was that it was amazing that a senior Senate leader was so ignorant of such a critical and problematical subset of the world.
Trent Lott, U. S. Congressman & Senator (Republican, MS), Senate Majority Leader, Quoted on CNN, 2009
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The report was praised by some of the intellectuals of Pakistan and most of the non-Islamic world. However, Pakistan the discussion of each of the cleavages, instigated the public passion of the cleavage and nothing significant was done.
It is this verse that for some Muslims justifies terrorism against non-Muslims. See {584354} for a specific example. There are similar provisions in the Old Testament which a few extremely conservative Jews and Christians have used to advocate for blasphemy being a capital crime. Note that if an unbeliever repents and becomes a Muslim, he should be spared.
He had been an eye-witness to the Massacre of the Parisian Protestants as a young man.
This appeal was to the Sunni Muslims to join in the war against the Shiite Muslims and the Americans. While there have been very few rapes by American forces in the Iraq war there have been some of Sunnis against Shiite women and vice versa. Sexual defiling is such an emotive concept for Iraqi Muslims, that the few cases there have been were propaganda fodder. Note the use of the term “Crusader” to designate Christians. They are still living in world of a thousand years ago.
A publicity seeking fundamentalist Christian minister in Florida had publicly burned a Koran to the moral condemnation of the President and most other government leaders, as well as clergy of all faiths. However, after the President of Afghanistan condemned the act, there were attacks on a United Nations compound in that country and a number of innocent people were killed and two beheaded. Yet most Muslim clerics were reluctant to morally condemn the murders while they were vociferous in castigating the Koran burning. Some were intimidated and feared that they would be attacked if they criticized the Islamic fundamentalism that advocated the murders and terrorism.
This quotation demonstrates that religious persecution of non Muslims was a duty, This has been a characteristic of all religious persecution regardless of religion. The quotation also shows that after 600 years, the original limited tolerance the Prophet had urged for People of the Book (Jews and Christians) was waning. Instead of non-believers being tolerated if they paid the special tax and were second class citizens, leaders were urged to convert or eliminate “infidels.”
This is the “logic” by which Islamic terrorists have justified murder of civilians. Just as all Muslim men are fighters for Allah, all infidels are fighters against Allah and thus should die.
Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American author and former politician. A former United States Senator from Mississippi, Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He entered Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career, he became Senate Majority Leader, and, alternately, Senate Minority Leader. In 2003, he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
