Posted on 06/11/2004 9:40:48 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 11 (UPI) -- A Palestinian couple frustrated over their inability to marry approached Israeli lines hoping to be shot together, it was reported Friday.
Soldiers suspected the couple were not militants and held their fire, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said on its Web site.
The couple in their late 20s have been friends for six years and upon questioning, told officials they could not marry because of a dispute between their families, a military source told United Press International. They decided suicide was their only option.
They approached the Kfar Darom settlement early Wednesday. The woman dropped her bag when soldiers approached and hugged the man when soldiers pointed their guns at them. Soldiers asked the woman to move aside so they could search the man, but she would not let go of him until shots were fired in the air.
After searching and questioning the pair, the army released them, confident they were not affiliated with any terrorist organizations.
> How is this different from Christians who say "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow"?
It's not. However, the simple fact is... as a non-Christian, I have very little to fear from the hundreds of millions of Xtians around me; the likelihood of being stoned to death, shot, burned or otherwise done away with for my heretical beliefs is pretty minimal. However, were I to find myself in a Muslim land...
Welcome to Free Republic.
One of the characteristics of free debate is the ablility to state facts without fear of the context police, the new arrivals, flush with PC and shamelessly absolutist, who seem to be the loudest.
Please excuse my not embracing your attempt at moral smuggness.
Now if you could address the central issue of my statement, I might consider your opinion, ignorant as it is, of some potential value.
> Please excuse my not embracing your attempt at moral smuggness.
It's hardly PC to ask for restraint against the use of racial epithets.
As I said to blackmuslim, it's not about the translations, it's about the Character.
Allah is not just the word "god" translated into Arabic. Allah has a very different character than the One who revealed Himself to Abraham and Moses, and a very different character than the One who revealed Himself in Jesus.
They can not be different names for the same being.
Shalom.
Ahem, in the second person thrice perfect that should
be "Slud....".
I like your blogs.
"these things are not allowed in islam" Ahem! Have you ever heard of dhimmitude? that most certainly condones slavery, murder and forced conversion by the sword. What version of Islam do you prescribe to?
In the present day, yes. IMO, the Muslim world needs a healthy dose of Enlightenment rationalism.
> In the present day, yes.
Yes. Five hundred years ago, even a hundred in a few places, Christians tended to be damned spooky
> IMO, the Muslim world needs a healthy dose of Enlightenment rationalism.
It does, and damend soon. But how that can come about is anybodies guess. I've always suspected that Christianity was "easily* reformed because it had a strict heirarchy that could be directly rebelled against, and once that was done, a deeper reformation was possible. But Islam is broekn into several major branches, none with the same sort of strict heirarchy as the Catholic Church. There is no Islamo-Pope, for example. So, instead of complaining about the wrongs of the heirarchy, far, far away... Muslims will have to complain about the wrongs of their fellow Muslims. Those who have done this have seen that it's career-limiting.
Keep trying, the war is just beginning.
Those who have done this have seen that it's career-limiting.
Not to mention life threatening.
This was not called execution.
It was called retirement.
"there is only one GOD my friend."
This is precisely my point...Hashem and no other!!!
"must be slow in the trailor park right now."
Ya, but we have plenty of parking space for your Camel so come on in.
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