“The phrase Jihad has a lot of meanings within Islam. Um, and is subject to a lot of interpretations. I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified.”
He’s playing word games here... violence towards guilty people is just an bad, and who gets to decide innocence or guilt?
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All Islamic Sharia Law and Theology is contained in the Trilogy (Koran 14%, Hadith 60% and Siras 26%)...most of violent and culturally abhorrent Islamic practice is denoted in the Hadith and Siras...no attention is paid to those seminal bodies and the public is left with the impression that the Koran is ALL of Islamic doctrine...the Koran is only a small part as not above.
According to this statement, we should just let them run over all of America killing and bombing where ever they see fit. Then we can all have Sharia law and the world will be at peace.
and who gets to decide innocence or guilt?
We all do. That's what thinking, rational, sane adults do. Is it really your contention that we, as Americans, shouldn't fight back against this outrage?