No
angels
Christians have hatred
too and their war is not just
By Dariush Abadi
April 14, 2004
iranian.com
Dear Jerry Quill,
Regarding your article "Martyrs
without a cause", I agree with one of your
points and disagree with another. I agree with you that martyrdom
is not
a
cause that
is faught with hatred in
your heart. We have an example from Imam Ali (a.s) on this.
During a defensive battle, Imam Ali (a.s) was about
to kill one of the enemies
fighters. Right when he was about to, the enemy spat at Imam
Ali's face. Imam
Ali then took his sword and put it back, and refused to kill
the man.
The man asked Imam Ali why he didn't kill him. Imam
Ali said that after the man
spat on his face, he became angry, and would have killed
the man out of
personal anger and revenge, rather than for the cause of
God, and Justice.
The man, seeing the great wisdom of Imam Ali, later
converted to Islam.
So I completely agree with you, that matyrdom
is false if
it's based on personal
anger toward a group, especially a group protected by
Islam (the Jews and
Christians). However, I disagree with you that Christians
don't have hatred or that their war is
just.
After September 11, most Americans supported invading
Afghanistan (and
later Iraq), because of hatred.
If you saw
the events months after September 11, the whole media
became anti-Islamic, and
anti-Arab. The people became very suspicious of anything
Islamic. And the Bush administration definately didn't launch
this war for the benefit
of the Arabs or the Muslims. They lied to the mass
public, and are reaping
massive profit from this war (by re-building Iraq through
American
corporations)
It is unfair that you claim the Christians are on
the side of the just, when
the majority of Christian evangilists in America
are spitting out hate in the
media, especially against Muslims and Middle Easterners.
Most Christian
Evangilists (Pat Robertson, Jerry Farwell, etc.)
called for the war in Iraq to
safeguard Israel, not to bring justice in Iraq.
Insha'Allah we will overcome our emotions and hatred,
and be able to fight
for justice and establishing peace.
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