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ramadan says no morality in that choice to kill children, condemns the act not the killer

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Submitted by myth (Netherlands), Dec 8, 2009 at 10:42

"explicable" means that there is a clear cause-consequence relation between context-childmurder. This implies there is no choice based on morality involved, it is forced upon the killer by causality. From that perspective the condemnation of the childmurder is not applicable to the situation at all for there never was a moral choice in the first place. I do believe I understand Ramadan's argumentation right. Essentially this is a very much islamist argument which places acts based on sharia law outside the sphere of open moral choices. Another indication of this anti-moral attitude lies in the condemnation of the act, not the killer. the act again has no part in moral choices, only people have.

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1ramadan says no morality in that choice to kill children, condemns the act not the killer [114 words]mythDec 8, 2009 10:42165501
1Tariq Ramadan [260 words]Paul la DemainJul 28, 2007 03:46105021
Ramadan has exactly the same goal as the terrorists, which is to spread islam [43 words]Roosevelt's DiscipleJul 4, 2007 08:39102891
See extensive article [19 words]Peter A. BrandJun 21, 2007 17:19100077
Tariq Ramadan [13 words]guy leven-torres (agricola)Jun 12, 2007 12:1997808
Tariq Ramadan's conflict with truth [59 words]Seamus MacNemiMar 6, 2007 12:1580536

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