Naomi, my leader (Jesus) does not instruct me to hate people. I am instructed to bless All people.
And yet, some condemn me as Hating, simply because I see things differently than they do.
Then, there is the jarring sights of replacing an American flag with a Palestinian flag.
(America used to symbolize the freedom to (safely) have different opinions. Not perfectly, but that was the Ideal. Most believers of Islam are not extremists. Unlike the Nazis, Hamas doesn't try to hide their atrocities or their glee while doing them. I don't understand--and I read your essay and the referred 53 pages of source of history--how so many people can support their tactics. THAT is the evil I recoil from.)
Scary to me are the passages in the Koran that--to this day!--make rape of unbelievers of Muslim "legal," or murder if a person doesn't convert to Islam--Quickly! The ends justify the means!
But I see a Palestine flag and think: Sharia law and clitorectomies. Rapes and murders.
It doesn't fit with the constitution.
I can't see myself Ignoring the actions of extremist Christians even if I agreed with their goal.
That distinction hasn't been made by the pro-Palestine marchers and/or intimidators.
THAT is the issue that makes me wary.
Prayer is the answer, yet I doubt Hamas would deign to pray with me.
Respectfully the Hebrew Bible tells us to stone young women who have sex, to death. Every ancient text has sections that can be lifted to show how insane a religion is. But the essential teachings of Islam - meaning the call to peace and love -are exactly the same as the teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
Naomi, my leader (Jesus) does not instruct me to hate people. I am instructed to bless All people.
And yet, some condemn me as Hating, simply because I see things differently than they do.
Then, there is the jarring sights of replacing an American flag with a Palestinian flag.
(America used to symbolize the freedom to (safely) have different opinions. Not perfectly, but that was the Ideal. Most believers of Islam are not extremists. Unlike the Nazis, Hamas doesn't try to hide their atrocities or their glee while doing them. I don't understand--and I read your essay and the referred 53 pages of source of history--how so many people can support their tactics. THAT is the evil I recoil from.)
Scary to me are the passages in the Koran that--to this day!--make rape of unbelievers of Muslim "legal," or murder if a person doesn't convert to Islam--Quickly! The ends justify the means!
But I see a Palestine flag and think: Sharia law and clitorectomies. Rapes and murders.
It doesn't fit with the constitution.
I can't see myself Ignoring the actions of extremist Christians even if I agreed with their goal.
That distinction hasn't been made by the pro-Palestine marchers and/or intimidators.
THAT is the issue that makes me wary.
Prayer is the answer, yet I doubt Hamas would deign to pray with me.
Respectfully the Hebrew Bible tells us to stone young women who have sex, to death. Every ancient text has sections that can be lifted to show how insane a religion is. But the essential teachings of Islam - meaning the call to peace and love -are exactly the same as the teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
Except that ended with Christians and Jews. Not so with Muslims, i.e. honor killings happen to this day.