Religious Accountability Quotes
This sura is interpreted by some Islamic fundamentalists as absolution for the killing of a non-Muslim by a Muslim. It was Allah who did it. In a greater sense, critics of Islam observe that many Muslims and Islamic nations have a double standard of responsibility for crimes. If the victims are Muslims, the normal standards of morality hold; but if a non-believer there can be no crime. Terrorism, torture, beheading, mass murder can all be done with a clean conscience if a Muslim takes this interpretation of this sura. Many Muslims however take an opposite point of view. These people do not have the concept of fatalism and lack of free will that others believe. There is a parallel to this problem in Judeo Christian countries although it is less common statistically. But the murder of physicians who perform abortions, and the Jewish radical fundamentalist who killed innocent Arabs at worship are examples of people who viewed themselves as instruments of God in their heinous activities.
He was convicted of various felonies including threatening federal officials and sentenced to prison.
Later in the same document, he calculates the age by which a girl should be married as nine (9) years old. However, many Islamic countries have been under pressure from their educated populations and women’s groups to set a higher age as a minimum. Sharia scholars in the latter part of the 20th century tend to have moved the age up to 12, but many countries will not even make that a minimum. Yemen for example ‘recommended’ 15 but leaves it up to the girl’s parent to pick the exact age which very often is under 15 and in some cases as low as the 9 that Khomeini recommended.
Son of Reverend Billy Graham
People of this era not only saw epidemics as the wrath of God, but also saw military catastrophe, invasion and raids as a punishment of God for the sins of the people of the area.
