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The Globe and Mail reports today that the Al-Qaeda bombing in Riyadh last Saturday may have been "targeting Christian Arabs, rather than Muslims."
This is more confirmation of what Jihad Watch reported from the World Lebanese Cultural Union on Sunday and from a radical Muslim source on Monday.
POSTSCRIPT: Of course, Muslims were also killed. That's why Hamas condemned the bombing, saying that their own suicide attacks are "legitimate ones through which we defend our land and people," but the Saturday Riyadh attack "contradicts religion and the principles of Hamas." (Thanks to LGF for this one.)
What does it contradict in their religion and principles? "If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him" (Sura 4:93). There is no similar statement in the Qur'an about a man who kills an unbeliever.
What about this one, oft-quoted in the West? "We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person — unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people" (Sura 5:32). Hamas and other terrorist groups brush it aside — their targets are "spreading mischief in the land."
Posted by Robert at November 12, 2003 9:55 AM
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This oft cited passage is usually quoted to prove that Islam is a religion of peace. The next verses however clearly indicate that the concept of murder (and its punishement) does not apply to the killing of non-muslin. Instead, it plainly calls for their killing or amputation. That's you and I, folks!
[5:32] Because of this, we decreed for the Children of Israel that anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers went to them with clear proofs and revelations, but most of them, after all this, are still transgressing.
[5:33] The just retribution for those who fight GOD and His messenger, and commit horrendous crimes, is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or to be banished from the land. This is to humiliate them in this life, then they suffer a far worse retribution in the Hereafter.
[5:34] Exempted are those who repent before you overcome them. You should know that GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.
Posted by: Manny at November 12, 2003 2:45 PMI guess Sean Penn has just been too busy this fall to comment on the hundreds killed by Muslim terrorists.Oh wait,there is no such thing as a Muslim terrorist:they are all Mossad plants.
Posted by: The King at November 12, 2003 11:21 PMI've read a few quotes from ME folk condemning the recent attacks in Saudi Arabia. I'm struck by the fact that these folk emphasized that the victims were "innocent Muslims", as opposed to "innocent human beings". Call me crazy, but I got the impression that if the victims had all been Christian, Jew, Hindu, whatever, there would have been little or no outright condemnation of the terrorism.
Posted by: Mark at November 13, 2003 6:51 AM
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