Submitted by MOHAMAD NOZZI (Singapore), Apr 28, 2009 at 21:35
Cats protect their kittens. If you fight with their kittens, mother cats will come and fight against you so that their kittens would not be hurt by you. Lions protect their cubs. Don't ever intend to fight against their cubs or else the lions will fight fiercefully against you and even swallow you up.
From the above analyses, fighting back is indeed acceptable by nature. Thus, we, moderate muslims, that fight against non-muslims that start to attack our mosques have been found to be acceptable by nature.
Therefore, I conclude that fighting back is not to be considered bad at all.
We, moderate muslims, are not coward. For instance, if you would come to our mosque to stir up fire, we would definitely fight back to defend our mosque to be burned up by you. However, if you do not stir up fire against us first, we would not treat you as our enemy and is willin to share the message of Allah from the Holy Quran so that one day you would repent and become a muslim.
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