Miss Madness indeed

Submitted by Nura (United States), May 13, 2008 at 00:19

Miss Madness? Is that a real term.? I seem to be making people angry in this forum. A common response from people who have a superiority complex. When you have a superiority complex as many Westerners do, any information that does not go along with your pre-conceived notions and beliefs are attacked. You see yourself as being the best culture and people in the world. This was justification for European Colonization and Imperialism., civilizing the "heathen" world.

Sheik Quaradawi or Tariq Ramadam? Never heard of them, but perhaps I will look them up, thanks for the reference.

Now you want to go by what Jesus said. If you were judged right here and now based on All of his teachings you would probably be damned.

So religious leaders in Christendom always honored their neighbors? Pope Urban II said the following:

"The noble race of Franks must come to the aid their fellow Christians in the East. The infidel Turks are advancing into the heart of Eastern Christendom; Christians are being oppressed and attacked; churches and holy places are being defiled. Jerusalem is groaning under the Saracen yoke. The Holy Sepulchre is in Moslem hands and has been turned into a mosque. Pilgrims are harassed and even prevented from access to the Holy Land.

"The West must march to the defense of the East. All should go, rich and poor alike. The Franks must stop their internal wars and squabbles. Let them go instead against the infidel and fight a righteous war.

"God himself will lead them, for they will be doing His work. There will be absolution and remission of sins for all who die in the service of Christ. Here they are poor and miserable sinners; there they will be rich and happy. Let none hesitate; they must march next summer. God wills it! "

Most of it was not true. It was propaganda urged to commit one of the worst atrocities in history, The Crusades.

How many wars were blessed by the Popes? Again, study history.

Hitler DID justify the oppression of the Jews by Christianity, just as Slavery was with Africans and Native American. Blacks were called the people of Cain and Ham, thus deserving slavery. St. Augustine called Jews the people of Cain "a wicked sect" that deserved oppression and Exile. During the crusades 10,000 Jews were killed within the first month before the Christian army reached Jerusalem!! The KKK is a Christian organization that was responsible for murdering, burning and hanging blacks up until the 60s. Psychopathology is the history of the West!!

No, it is not Christianity that is being practiced, I agree. But why is this special allowance given only when Christians commit horrible acts, Terrorism? Why Euro-Christians are more prone to these acts should be the real psychological study.

Food for thought:

Serve Allah, and associate not anyone with Him; and do good … to parents, to kinsfolk, to orphans, to those in need, to neighbors who are near, neighbors who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer ... [Qur'an 4:36]

The Prophet (pbuh) said; "Whosoever believes in Allah and the Day of Accountability should honor his neighbor

The Prophet said, "Angel Gabriel kept on referring to the status of the neighbor that I thought that neighbors may inherit from a person."

Someone once came to the Prophet and asked, ""Inform me about something that will cause me to go to heaven?" The Prophet replied: "Be a Muslim/good doer." The man asked, "O Prophet, how will I know that I am a good person?" The Prophet replied: "Ask your neighbor. If your neighbor says you are good, then indeed you must be good."

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