Not Muslim?

Submitted by David MacKAY (Canada), Nov 9, 2009 at 21:51

Sarah here is some information that shows I view him as a Muslim and question any claim of Christianity .

FROM Hugh At http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/02/relatives-of-killer-1997-empire-state-shooting-was-revenge-for-us-support-for-israel.html

Sirhan Sirhan

He was born a Christian. Or let me be more accurate: he was born, and then raised as a "Palestinian" Islamochristian, in the manner of George Habash. His reason for killing Robert Kennedy was not, however, because of some form of "nationalist" sentiment. In 1968, when he fired his shots, the "Palestinian people" business was no longer on the drawing boards but the plane had not yet taken off. As that hybrid thing, the Arab Christian who identifies completely with the Muslim world-view, and is heedless of the real condition of Christians, even Arab Christians, under Muslim rule (now, of course, many Christian Arabs have fled Bethlehem and Nazareth and have begun dimly to realize what their fate under Islma will be - but many can't quite accept this, and insist upon blaming not the Muslims who have been harassing and threatening and attacking them, but those dastardly Israelis who somehow are blamed).

You can be sure that in the household of Sirhan Sirhan, all the standard Arab Muslim views, without any deviation, were inculcated. He was not, after all, a Maronite or a Copt, and therefore aware that his origins pre-date the arrival of Islam, but the kind of Arab Christian whose sense of himself as an "Arab" virtually requires him, even if nominally Christian, to accept and belief and present to others the Muslim view, and to feel a Muslim resentment or, in Sirhan Sirhan's case, a murderous rage toward all those deemed part of some vast conspiracy.

Still smarting from the defeat of the Six-Day War, in the safety of America Sirhan Sirhan did what he could to avenge that defeat. And what he could do is to aim his gun at Robert Kennedy, and pull the trigger.

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