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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/22/al-mutawa.islamic.superheroes/index.html?hpt=C2
Didn't quote the entire editorial, but its a good read, and I agree with Mr. Al-Mutawa. A lot of people would do well to listen to him. The majority of Muslims, and Christians, are not the nutjobs the major news outlets like to portray. As Mr. Al-Mutawa points out, both Islam and Christianity were founded under similar conditions, and preachers today from both sides have forgotten their principles and are preaching doctrine that both Christ and Muhammad would find appalling.
Didn't quote the entire editorial, but its a good read, and I agree with Mr. Al-Mutawa. A lot of people would do well to listen to him. The majority of Muslims, and Christians, are not the nutjobs the major news outlets like to portray. As Mr. Al-Mutawa points out, both Islam and Christianity were founded under similar conditions, and preachers today from both sides have forgotten their principles and are preaching doctrine that both Christ and Muhammad would find appalling.
It was not the first time I had heard terrible notions of fear and hate peddled in the name of my religion. But that day was different. That day I felt complicit. I had reached a point of intellectual critical mass where my love for my religion overwhelmed my sitting in silence any longer. As I stood up, I stared at the imam to make sure he knew that at least one person would no longer accept the recipe of his revenge.
Fifteen hundred years after the birth of Christ, men representing the Catholic Church poured hot lead down the throats of Muslims and Jews to get them to accept Jesus as their Savior. Fourteen hundred years after Gabriel conveyed God's message to Muhammad through the Qur'an, a tiny minority of self-aggrandizing Muslims are using the lead of bullets to kill untold numbers in an unspeakable insult to name of Islam.
