http://www.timesonline.com/bct_news/news_details/article/1373/2010/march/16/internet-video-muslims-must-rise-up-in-nigeria.html

A video posted on a militant Web site calls for Muslims in Nigeria to use "the sword and the spear" to rise up against Christians in Africa's most populous nation, according to a translation released Tuesday by a U.S. group that monitors militant sites....


Worldwide Islamic Jihad continues its mayhem.

Some people from our Church know of a few missionaries in Kenya. Pretty scary for them right now. Hope no one ( from either side) get hurt.  :(

...And Jesus and Mohamed both wept.

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...And Jesus and Mohamed both wept.

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I thought Mohammed largely converted by the sword!!!

I thought Mohammed largely converted by the sword!!!


I am not expert at Islam so not sure.

I did see a story a couple a days ago.  A Muslim cleric issued a Fatwa which condemned terrorism; he quoted a line in the Koran which basically says that this sort of mayhem is a sin.  Sadly at this point, most Muslim clerics either disagree with him or choose to remain silent.

I did see a story a couple a days ago.  A Muslim cleric issued a Fatwa which condemned terrorism; he quoted a line in the Koran which basically says that this sort of mayhem is a sin.  Sadly at this point, most Muslim clerics either disagree with him or choose to remain silent.

I heard him talking on the radio (at least, I assume it was the same chap).. what was most pleasing was that he got some air time, because let's face it: moderate Islam simply isn't news.  Moderates don't hit the streets shouting for a less radical approach - as an example, I've not seen a single report of moderate Christians speaking out against the Westboro Baptist Church.  Does that mean that most Christian clerics either agree with them or choose to remain silent?


I've become very sceptical about the media's role in bigging up radical Islam into some kind of bogeyman - it doesn't

I am not expert at Islam so not sure.

I did see a story a couple a days ago.  A Muslim cleric issued a Fatwa which condemned terrorism; he quoted a line in the Koran which basically says that this sort of mayhem is a sin.  Sadly at this point, most Muslim clerics either disagree with him or choose to remain silent.


When Christianity was about the same age as Islam is today, we were suffering through the Spanish inquisition.  For sure, there was no mass media at the time, and news traveled a lot slower.  Nonetheless, millions of good Christians stood by while inquisitors tortured their brethren in Christ and witchfinders pointed at pagans to be burned at the stake or drawn and quartered. 

There are some scary sonofabitches in the Muslim world today.  If I was just a lowly imam presiding over a mosque in Tripoli, I think I'd rather go about my business and keep my mouth shut.  Zealots who are going to fell hundreds by the sword aren't going to listen to my calls for peace, and they might decide I'm an infidel and come after ME!
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After all, religious wars usually involve more than theology, like all wars, they are about political power and control of resources.