Iraqi Christians more afraid than ever

How are you able to judge that they are false muslims? A large group of muslims feel that they are not false.

 

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One in eight UK Muslims 'support terrorist attacks'
scotsman ^ | 3/15/04

Posted on 03/15/2004 7:02:44 PM PST by knak

ONE in eight British Muslims back al-Qaeda-style terror strikes on the United States and almost half said they might consider becoming a suicide bomber if they lived as a Palestinian, according to a new poll.

An overwhelming 80 per cent said Britain and the US should not have launched the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Attacks on the US by al-Qaeda or other groups were viewed as justified by 13 per cent of the 500 British Muslims questioned. Another 15 per cent said they did not know whether such attacks were wrong or right.

 

13 % equals a vast majority.

 

I've read at least part of the book, I've listened to a couple of imams and seen far too many now who are coming out of the woodwork condemning terrorist attacks. Until I read something different in the Qur'an, I think I'll stick with that position.

 

almost half said they might consider becoming a suicide bomber if they lived as a Palestinian, according to a new poll.

13% say they were justified
15% say they do not know

That is over a quarter that refused to say they were wrong.

 

Not only that, but the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is a related, but separate argument than the coalition in Iraq. Lots of people disagree with the coalition being in Iraq, and it has nothing to do with religion.

Even if you count the 15% undecideds in with those who justify the attacks, that leaves 72% of British Muslims who condemn terrorist attacks against the United States.

 

Regardless of who the target is almost half would consider being a terrorist.

 

Does this sound like a religion of peace?

Pakistanis Outraged Over Rushdie - Jamaat-e-Islami Leaders say Death Sentence against Rushdie still Stands
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani Islamic groups said Saturday that they were outraged that their Muslim neighbor Iran has softened its stand toward British writer Salman Rushdie.

While stopping short of renouncing a death sentence against Rushdie, Iran said late last week it won't adopt any measures that threaten the writer's life or anyone connected to his book, "The Satanic Verses." Iran also said it would not encourage or help anyone kill the writer.

Salman Rushdie foolishly appeared in public yesterday, believing that the death sentence against him had been lifted.

Ten years ago, Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a "fatwa," or Islamic edict, against the Indian-born Rushdie charging his book was blasphemous against Islam.

Rushie's novel has stirred emotions in Pakistan, where several years ago seven people died in violent protests against the book. Blasphemy laws in Pakistan call for the death penalty against anyone found guilty of insulting Islam.

On Saturday, hard-line Islamic groups in Pakistan criticized Iran for announcing Thursday it was distancing itself from the death sentence and a $2.5 million reward for Rushdie's death. Most of the groups were of the Sunni sect -- Islam's biggest single sect, comprising 85 percent of all Muslims.

Some of the organizations used Iran's decision to question the legitimacy of the nation's Shiite Islam, the second largest sect. Iran is the only country with an overwhelming Shiite majority.

Militant members of both sects in Pakistan have engaged in a bloody feud in which hundreds have died in recent years.

"The Iranian brand of Islam has been exposed," Sheikh Hakim, chief of Sunni Muslim militant Sipah-e-Sahaba, or the Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet, told The Associated Press. "According to Islam, Rushdie is liable to death but Iran is changing its stance for worldly gains."

The Iranian Embassy in Pakistan in a statement Saturday said the verdict of Ayatollah Khomeini still holds good and an insult to Islamic sanctities and values was not acceptable to its government.

Shah Faridul Haq, vice president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, a right-wing religious party in Pakistan's Senate or Upper House of Parliament, said there was a consensus among all Muslim sects that Rushdie should be killed.

"If Iran withdraws its decision, this means the country is contradicting its faith and fundamental principles of Islam," he said.

Saleem Qadri, a leader of hard-line Sunni Tehrik, or Sunni Movement, said a person involved in blasphemy has to be killed even if he asks for pardon.

"No one can change a fatwa because it is in line to the Holy book, (the Koran)," said Qadri.

A leader of Shiite Tehrik-e-Jafria, Allama Hussain Turrabi, said the Western media has distorted Iran's statement.

"No one has a right to scrap a fatwa. Who ever indulges in blasphemy or leaves Islam must be killed," he said.

 

I believe that is unclear writing on the part of whoever wrote the article. I believe he was referring to those that supported the attacks, so half of the 1 in 8 number would consider being a suicide bomber

 

That would be different but that is not how I interpreted it.