Re: Iraqi Sunni Mourners Vow Revenge
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Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo
Since when do we follow "kaffirs" I thought we were supposed to follow Islam.
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Everyone who calls themselves muslim likes to think they are following Islam, or at the least likes to have other people think so. The critical issue here is pride. I'm always wary of the "godly" who believe that they understand exactly what God wants -- it leaves very little room to acknowledge differences or to see people who have such differences as truly human and engaged in the same process of discovery and spiritual exploration as oneself.
It's much easier to understand and forgive another person for being fallible and misguided on the path to God if we truly see ourselves in the same way and if we *fear* being wrong. Once we stop being afraid of being misguided it's so much easier to have contempt for those who we believe are.
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"Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.
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Not till the dawn he heard it, his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there."
-- A.N.
"Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness,
But it's better than drinking alone."
-- B.J.
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