Submitted by Kiana(United States), Sep 15, 2004 at 22:37
I am muslim, and I have to agree with Mr Keiler. The people who are commiting these atrocious crimes are not just real Muslims. These are people who are evil plain and simple. Most don't care if you are Muslim; they persecute other Muslims sometimes because they don't hold the same minute beliefs.
What kills me is that some people think that these fundamentalists( who are dealing with general principles rather than practical application) are usually the most devout, however that is quite the contrary, many of the al qaida and other groups drink and do many very unislamic things. Most importantly kill innocent people.
Nowhere in any doctrine of Islam (Quran or Hadith) does it allow the killing of innocent people. Now there are explanations of war but there are rules and guidelines, of which one of the most important is no women and children. Understand that people who have a personal agenda usually use some sort of ideology to back it up. Example: hundreds of years agon, white Americans in U.S used their religion and the Bible as justification for enslaving and killing Africans.
Just because a bad person does something in the name of God doesn't mean that everyone who believes in God is bad.
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