You said — “I don’t agree with you that a Muslim would never act to save a non-Muslim.”
Certainly, I would think you are right. There are certainly some Muslims who may act to save an infidel’s life.
HOWEVER, after doing so, the Imams will probably put out a fatwa against such a Muslim for going against the Koran and *death to the infidels* — and such a Muslim would probably have to flee for his life.
We would welcome such fleeing Muslims....
Regards,
Star Traveler
At this point I have to confess that as an engineer, who works with a LOT of Muslim engineers, I have a bit of insight over any Freerepublic member who doesn’t know a single Muslim.
I am Catholic. We tend to chose what we believe in Catholic teaching. The Pope says birth control is prohibited, but I don’t follow that requirement of Catholic teaching.
The Muslims I know here in San Francisco are all over the map. Some are fundamentalists and fast exactly as required for Ramadan. Some pray the required number of times in the required direction every day. Not a single Muslim engineer in my office prays on a rug, which I thought was a requirement of fundamentalist Islam.
I know a lot of Americanized Muslims who believe what they want of Islam and I only know a small handful who are fundamentalists who follow the literal word of the Koran. Just as I only know a small handful of fundamentalist Christians who believe people were turned to salt in times past and Noah’s Arc actually had 2 of every ant species, 2 of every snake species, 2 of every spider species, etc... to repopulate the earth.
Muslims are all over the map with respect to Islam. The fundamentalists are the danger. Most Americanized Muslims are not the problem, except to the extent that way, way, way too many of them coddle the fundamentalists, in much the way that liberals coddle pedophiles, abortionists, violent criminals, etc...