Posted on 10/27/2002 2:22:59 AM PST by sarcasm
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ACOMA - Coming after the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and as the nation appears headed toward war with Iraq, the string of sniper killings that caused the capital region to cower for nearly a month prompted many to question whether they were the work of Islamic terrorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The Islamic whitewash begins. John Allen Muhammad was just another mixed up Muslim psycho killer. Just like Muhammad Atta. Par for the course.
Their so called prophet Muhammad was also a terrorist, a murderer and a pedophile to boot. I can't really expect much from a religion founded by such a man.
but,
Muhammad, 41, one of two men charged with the killing spree in suburban Washington, D.C., is a black Muslim ...
No contradiction there.
Where was this guy getting the jack? That's what I and (I hope) other inquiring minds want to know. Who was paying for those weekend flights from Tacoma? Where was he going and who was he meeting with when he got there?
Hard questions I'm sure the Federal LE Agencies have delegated to the Montgomery County authorities to investigate, rather than do it themselves, so the matter is swiftly brought to light.
Right, good little Muslim mass murderers never use such language.
Elsewhere in the news:
Islamic proselytizers are spreading the Religion of Peace by offing 21 members of a family in Algeria, bringing joy to a theatre full of Russians, assaulting a Christian town in the Phillipenes, blowing up people in Pakistani churches, Tunisian synagauges, Indian temples, etc, etc, etc...
This is also a disturbing point of view. The taking of human life, except in self-defense or in capital punishment, is not a God-given right. Murder is not a natural condition.
It might have been the case that intervention or a conversation between the Father and the murderer may have resulted in the murderer turning away from murder as a modus operendi to his emotions, but by no means is murder a default condition. Such a conversation would not be 'saving' another life. Saving another life implies another life was lost by default. Quite the contrary, the life wasn't taken until the murderer actually squeezed the trigger and intentionally took premeditated action and decided to murder his victim.
More disturbingly, this view that the priest intervening could save a life, completely misses the relationship between God and man, as well as ministerial and pastoral guidance per the Great Commission. The Father displays an arrogance that his will might have influenced the will of the murderer in order to proclaim another life was 'saved', whereas the ONLY salvation of directed worth is that salvation of things immortal, through Christ. And that salvation is only granted by God Himself, through grace, not works lest any man should boast.
The Father in the article is reportedly guilty of evil as promoted by a 'do-gooder'. This situation is an outstanding example of how such seemingly innocuous evil can wind its way into apparant good.
By no means do I suggest the murderer is less guilty of his behavior nor that DeFalco is not good intentioned, but this is a convenient opportunity to point out a significant doctrinal point missed by many Christians who associate 'do-gooder' behavior with Christianity. In fact such behavior appeals to a satanic counterfeit system whereby knowingly or not the 'do-gooder' becomes an agent of the Adversary by substituting the do-gooder's will for God's will.
If the quote had been as yours, I would agree fully. Namely, an effort to prevent a serial murderer from murdering again is laudable.
My post was to point out a finer aspect of obedience to Him which many of us might fail to grasp and become hypocrits in that ignorance.
Those who do good for the sake of doing good, rather than in obedience to Him, fall akin to a counterfeit system of rulership. This is exactly the sin of Lucifer when he became Satan.
The article is an excellent example of this finer point. Frequently evil is allowed to conquer evil. Frequently, a counterfeit plan to God appeals to human good as an alternate to Divine righteousness.
I don't believe all Catholics fall into this trap. IMHO, many who understand Jesus Christ lived and is alive, also fail to believe in Him and stumble by focusing on how to perform human good rather than walking in/by Him.
The article was a fine display for discernment of this point.
Makes one wonder if there wasn't a Sun Tzu-like play ongoing on the behalf of both parties.
To those devout in the language, the switch might add fuel to their firey justification for a jihad. For those who oppose the Militant Muslim, all the more justification and demoniztion of their position.
Perhaps there were other clues which justified the verbiage, not yet known to the public.
The Chechens in Moscow will never, ever be called what they were -- terrorists -- by the media, because they were Muslims to a man, and were in the process of defiling a Christian sacred place, just as certain Palestinian "freedom fighters" did at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
When it's Christians on one side and Muslims on the other, the Muslims always get much more than a simple benefit of the doubt. They get every conceivable kind of exculpation, and a few that are outrightly inconceivable. If I were conspiratorially minded, I'd suspect that a thoroughgoing hatred of Christians and Christianity pervades America's newsrooms.
Or maybe they're just too pantingly anxious to be liked by their European confreres. I don't know. Either way, for an industry that has its own Amendment to the Constitution, it's a disgraceful betrayal of all they supposedly stand for.
I no longer bother with the Old Media much, for precisely this reason: They invariably promote the picture of the world they want their audience to have above the simple presentation of the facts. When the facts are inconvenient to their proselytizing, the facts are obscured, buried, or sloughed.
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