Many Muslims have said their religion is one of peace. I believe this and I believe the vast majority of Muslims are pieceful people. There is a large minority of Muslims who show us they feel otherwise when they support or participate in the violence seen in Iraq and coffee shop bomings in Tel Aviv.
Shortly after the death of Zarqawi was announced, it was said the posting the picture of Zarqawi's corpse on the news and around the globe was against the Muslim religion.
The backlash of this did not build much past a dull roar and here is possibly why;
No one disputes Zarqawi personally is responsible directly for extinguishing of 1000+ lives. He personally beheaded a few innocents for a video. Zarqawi is also seen in some video plannning the next strategy with his lieutenants, obviously for maximizing Iraqi citizen and US soldier casualties. Then there are pictures and video of him praying. Because the Muslim religion is one of piece I argue Zarqawi is not Muslim but just your run-of-the-mill religious extremist, justifying his bloody actions in the name of other peoples Allah.
With text and statistics http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_viol.htm from In the United States when the abortion clinic protests turned violent, especially in the middle 1990's there was a small, loud and media grabbing minority of "anti-abortion" radicals. The name anti-abortion may have grown from the large majority of "pro-life" folks who wanted to establish a definitive line between the two groups. The anti-abortionists resorted to obstruction through violence and murder, the pro-lifers also believe abortion was wrong, however their protests amounted to vocal condemnation and candle light vigils.
I will make the statement I believe a larger percentage of the pro-lifers in the US are Christian or believe in those values. Pro-lifers were peaceful people at the protests due to their moral guide, Jesus. Anti-abortionists may have invoked scripture or Jesus name in their defensive of their crimes and murder of clinic doctors. As a pro-life individual I would support the notion these anti-abortionists are not Christians at all. I don't know what they are and it is not relevant, just not Christian.
In this same argument I say Zarqawi as he stated "Allah is great" as he began cutting the neck of a fellow Muslim is not himself Muslim. 9 out of 10 Muslims I think or at least hope would agree. Therefore the displaying of Zarqawi's picture does not break any rules of the Muslim faith.
I will request the opinion of Isaac Shrodinger at isaacshrodinger.typepad.com, a former muslim.
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