Doing a quick Google search, I can find very little about beheadings actually being mentioned, much less condoned, in the Koran.
I did find this article on USA Today, however.. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-06-20-koran-beheadings_x.htm On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Because beheadings are a negative action performed almost exclusively by > Muslims who use Islam as the reason for doing it. The silence in regard to > it from within the Muslim community is a little scary to me, especially the > silence from clergy. I expect someone to step up and say that its wrong. > Flat out that its wrong, not playing word games and dance around the > subject. > > Your example of drugs do not come close, but lets say that it did. Lets say > that there is a problem with drug use in the African American community. Do > you see any protests against drugs? Sermons against drugs? Speeches, > seminars, newspaper articles, etc. all about drugs? Hey, there are! Drugs, > which is neither unique to the African American community nor condoned by > any holy book they follow is rejected by the community vocally. We have > people from the community standing up and saying "we reject this" and it is > bad. > Have we seen CAIR doing this? > > (and Rastifarians are a whole other story) > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Why do there need to be protests against it to show that a majority of > > Muslims are against it? > > > > This is basically like asking, can African-Americans live without drugs, > > because Gruss saw a few black guys doing drugs once. (and I would think > > more > > people die from drug use that beheading in this country) > > > > It is a ridiculous assumption to think that all or even a large > percentage > > of Muslims support this behavior. The entire religon and its followers > > cannot be rubber stamped becasue of a few extremists. > > > Show me the protests. I want protests. I want rejection of the actions. I > want to hear someone say that it is wrong. Not just us. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288698 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
