Posted on 09/20/2004 10:06:03 PM PDT by Destro
17 September, 2004
RUSSIA
Slaughter of Beslan children done as murderers shouted God is Great, says theologian
According to deacon Kuraev, Islam must not let itself be used by terrorists.
Moscow (AsiaNews) Beslan was a religious crime, a ritual murder carried out by people shouting Allah Akbar (God is great), this according to Orthodox theologian Andrei Kuraev, professor at the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy.
In How to perceive Islam after Beslan?, an article published on September 15 in the Moscow daily Izvestia, deacon Kuraev writes: What happened in Beslan is not just a crime. It was a religious crime. It was ritual murder, the murder of children with prayers in the background. The terrorists killed in the name of their faith. They killed people shouting Allah Akbar and sacrificed innocent children on the altar of their religious ideas.
Kuraev goes further: They were not just gangsters who killed. They were people of one faith who killed Christians in the name of their creed. One episode, he believes, makes this point clear. Sacha, a 13-year-old boy, was among the children taken hostage in the school. He wore a cross around his neck. When one of the terrorist saw it, the man turned his gun towards the boy and shouted: Pray! Sacha reacted by shouting Christ is risen! and escaped through a window.
In his message of condolences to President Putin, Patriarch Aleksij II said that terrorism showed its satanic face in Beslan. For Kuraev terrorism is satanic, not Islam as a whole. For this reason, he considers the Beslan terrorists satanic. When I speak of Satanism in relation to the terrorists, the theologian writes, I am not defining Islam as a satanic religion. The Beslan terrorists killed many Muslims as well because they saw them as evil Muslims.
Deacon Kuraev is certain that the fate of the world in the 21st century is in the hands of Muslim theologians. Someone like Mullah Omar (an Afghan spiritual leader linked to Osama bin Laden) supported the 9/11 attacks in New York. By contrast, other Muslim religious leaders strongly disapproved of them. Similarly, he adds, whilst Saudi Wahabi ulema (legal scholars) have recommended sending women as shahida (martyrs) to Russia, Russian Muslim leaders have repeatedly stated that terrorism in the name of Islam violates Islams own principles.
Kuraev suggests the Russian government create the appropriate conditions for the national media to serve as a forum for those who can offer a peaceful interpretation of Islam and curtail the sermonising by firebrand Muslim radicals.
Even if the Islamic world refuses to admit it, it is responsible for Muslim terrorism, Kuraev claims. Its major fault lies in the fact that it allows itself to be used. However, the Russian theologian believes the West, too, has to bear some of the responsibility. Deacon Kuraev is in fact convinced that there is anti-Muslim and anti-Christian terrorist plan concocted in the West that seeks to set up a new global order. For this reason, he berates those who are are trying to confuse us and pit us one against the other. For him, Russia has already become the bulwark that protects Europe against an aggressive Islamic world.
In the nineties, Russia opted for a hedonistic culture in lieu of the Christian faith. For deacon Kuraev, the war on terrorism can drive her back into the fold of religion. (AF)
How is "a peaceful interpretation" possible when their "Sacred" Scripture contains exhortations by the Prophet to murder infidels?
Who among the rug pilots has the authority to tell them that some of the words of the Prophet (Nuclear annihilation be unto Him) are "Valid", and others aren't?
How can we ever expect to have "Peaceful Coexistence" with Islam when the Koran explicitly tells them not to try to "Peacefully Coexist" with **ANYONE** else?
HUH??? Anybody got an answer?????
I'm humbled beyond words.
An incredible, beautiful testimony.
Kill them all. Believers of Mein Koran are not suited for this world.
Allah arks barf is Arabic
Alithos anesti, Sacha mou!
Jihadists can take captives and "marry" them--don't know if it's in the Koran, but would appear certainly in the Sayings of Mohammed, the Sunnah, and the Al-Hadish.
It is time for Holy Mother Russia to once more lead a crusade against the defilers and Muslim devils. With their help, we could eradicate Islam from the earth!
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
No no no. Really, it is.
Stop laughing.
Ah yes, I should have properly said, Truly He is risen.
This is nonsense to me. Nobody is "importing" Muslims to Europe, they are legally emmigrating there, (unfortunately), as they have been for decades, or should I say centuries. The truth is that this mass Muslim emmigration to nations whose religion and way of life they detest amounts to Islamic aggression against the West, Christians in general, and all "infidels" in particular. That we allow it amounts to Western STUPIDITY.
If any one is claiming that Islam's terrorism is somehow benefitting America and Western Europe I'd say they're out of their mind. We are still recovering from the devastation of 9-11 and it destabelized our economy for years. How do the train bombing in Spain help them? As for France's Muslim population, their government is busy making laws that suppress Muslim dress, (to their great credit), and while I have no love for the craven France I cannot see how Islamic terrorism is helping them either. It forces Western governments to spend untold billions of dollars on security measures. So when this nutcase in Russia says "the West" is fostering Islamic terrorism so that Christians and Muslims will wage war with one another, I have to place that notion deep into the paranoia bin and close the lid.
I am saddened at how much hatred exists toward the people of Russia. This thread is a solemn example indeed.
Who are the true fools? We are, the West: from Australia to America to Russia and all in between.
Check out this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222815/posts
Reuters purposely "softens" terrorism language to keep themselves safe and in the money. SICK!
I'm always amazed at posts like this, how twisted people's vision can be. History, (ancient and modern), shows me that Islam is an aggressive, conquering, bloody cult that has always made its gains through invasion and terror. Few could look at their oppressive culture and savagery and desire to convert to Mohammedism. The only thing that has prevented history from recording another few hundred years of Islamic conquests and bloodshed is the fact of Western man advancing in technology while Islamicism has been stuck in the middle ages due to their twisted beliefs and stagnant culture.
It doesn't take a genius to conclude that Islam doesn't require any 'outside' aggitation to spur them to destroy all things not Islamic. What great 'mastermind' turns Muslim fanatics against Hindus in Kashmir? What 'outside' power instigated the Taliban to destroy centuries old statues of Buddah? HATE is the emotion extracted from the teachings of the 'Koran', hate is what drives them, unites them, energizes them and spurs them to attack anything non-Muslim. History doesn't lie unless you look at it through some sort of distorted prism instead of clear glass.
If anyone believes, even for a moment, that Islam is not bent on the conversion and/or conquering of Christianity and the eradication of Jews they either do not understand the nature of Islamic fanaticism, do not read history, or possess no training in the Christian faith or Christian history; or all of the above.
Sorry to share with you, but slavophobes are fairly easy to find here as of late.
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