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The Descendants of Ishmael: A Religion of Righteousness or A Martyrs Death Squad

The Descendants of Ishmael: A Religion of Righteousness or A Martyrs Death Squad

Martin, Anthony

Paperback

Islam

ISBN10: 163273026X
ISBN13: 9781632730268
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 6 2015
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In spite of the many differences among Christians, Jews, and Muslims, they share a fundamental belief in God as compassionate and just. As a result, those communities have often nurtured people of extraordinary kindness and courageous commitment to justice. In contrast to the deep hatred that obviously inspired the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the vast majority of Muslims, like their Jewish and Christian counterparts, are appalled and sickened by terrorism, and utterly repudiate the mass murder of innocent people. Why then do some members of those same communities believe that it is their moral obligation to wage aggressive holy war, even to annihilate innocent people in God's name? What aspects of their scriptures and traditions tend to support violence against infidels? What ethical principles--religious and non-religious--can we affirm in response to those ideas and the atrocities that they sometimes engender? Religion is clearly not the only catalyst of total war and other forms of indiscriminate violence. People seem to be able to invent all sorts of rationales for mass killing without feeling the need to cite the will of God.

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