Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated' [arabs dancing in street alert!]

Washington Post ^ | February 2, 2003 | Washington Post Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated'

02/02/2003

The Washington Post

LONDON – Much of the world expressed shock, grief and condolences Saturday for the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew, but some in the Arab world saw the tragedy as divine justice against the United States and Israel.

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But on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, where many are braced for U.S. military action, some said the loss of the shuttle and its crew was God's retribution.

"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar Quraishi told Reuters news service. "God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us."

Noting that among the dead was Col. Ramon, a fighter pilot who participated in a 1981 bombing attack that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, car mechanic Mohammed Jaber Tamini said: "Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason. Now time has come, and God has retaliated to their aggression."

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/020203dnintworldreax2.6beb2.html

[Let's Roll]

Pretty much.

[sweetliberty]

"God did not prevent this. But we know He could have. Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it??"

God is not a puppetmaster. His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. It is natural for us to question why when tragedy and disaster strike, but there is not always an easy cause and effect answer. If there were, it would make US the master manipulators, always jumping through hoops to to control the hand of God. Jesus' disciples thought that adversity was always a direct result of sin but He taught them otherwise.

"As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "{It was} neither {that} this man sinned, nor his parents; but {it was} so that the works of God might be displayed in him." (John 9:1-3)

[shred]

I'm a little confused.

Falwell and Robertson tell us that God is retaliating against us because we don't shoot homosexuals on the spot.

The Arabs are telling us that God is retaliating against us because we are a wicked, vengeful, demonic bully who is good friends with the Evil Country (Israel).

Which is it? I'm glad there are all these people who understand God's intention better than myself, as now I know who I can rely on, when I want to ascertain the real truth.

[sweetliberty]

That makes me sick! I guess white people are incapable of deep grief. These people are disgusting and very small.

[MeekOneGOP]

Over there we know who the enemy is. Here, we seem to have trouble distinguishing between then good guys and the bad guys.

Isn't that the truth? I bet that many of the Liberal Loser Peacenik Goobers that were at the anti-Iraq war protests are in agreement with the folks in this article.

These folks are not on our side, that's for sure...

http://sp-usa.org/



http://socialist.org/base.html

[MeekOneGOP]

I understand. They are monsters and sons of pigs...

[McGavin999]

Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it?? Don't you have any ideas??

I see. So, God had no problem with us when we were run by a pervert who not only believed in abortion, but openly promoted it, and rewarded us with economic prosperity. But when we returned to his side, with a rightous man at the helm he decided to punish us? Is that how you see God?

I'm sure there is a mosque somewhere in your vicinity, perhaps you should go check it out, it seems you might be a little more happy with Islam and a cruel and illogical God.

[sweetliberty]

"So the terrorists are working for God?"

I don't think she/he is exactly saying that. I think she/he is saying that God makes use of what is available and throughout the scriptures and history, God has worked His will through the most unlikely of agents. When Satan was cast from heaven, God could have destroyed him then and there, but He didn't. He kept him around that through him we might be tried. God wants us to love Him and serve Him because we choose to do so, not because there is nothing else to do. If there were no evil, how would we learn what is good?

"For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried." (Ps. 66:10)

[al_possum39]

Has anybody counted up how many times Columbia made that trip and got back okay?
'Course maybe we are sinning more now than we did in the eighties & nineties.

[geedee]

Let's hope someone got the idiot's address. I'm sure Tommy Franks would be more than willing to teach him some manners.

[al_possum39]

I talked to God and he told me that he wasn't going to be responsible for an old shuttle falling to pieces since he had given us enough money to build new ones and we had failed to do so.

[sweetliberty]

Yes, the book of Job is one of the most enlightening of books....and interestingly, is the oldest of the books as well. It is the best example of how God uses Satan to test our faith. It is the book I approach always with a sense of both dread and comfort, the one that most beautifully illustrates man's fragility and his capacity for greatness, his weakness and vulnerability as well as revealing much about the nature of God, man and Satan.

[sweetliberty]

I always found it interesting that it was God that drew Satan's attention to Job.

[sweetliberty]

"Hairball?"

There's one in every crowd. LOL!

[BlazingArizona]

I knew they'd be "dancing in the streets" because of the death of the Israeli astronaut, but then again, how many Mohammedan astronauts are there?

At least one, a Saudi who went up on the Shuttle. Would they have celebrated if his flight had crashed?

[Polybius]

Legal baby killing, homosexual unions sanctioned, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, popular entertainment media, ect ect ect Those things are all outlawed in Muslim countries. Maybe God is a Muslim.

Open your Bible, my friend. There are scores of examples where God uses evil armies as a means for punishment. That is what the terrorists/Saddam are/will be to us.

But wouldn't you think that God would then use those terrorists to attack Hollywood and attack the Pro-Choice crowd instead of attacking a spacecraft manned by Americans that are usually Conservative and God Fearing?

If America is attacked, it will not be the America-hating, God-denying, abortion-demanding, degenerate Leftists that will die on the battlefield. For the most part, those who will die on the battlefield will have Conservative values.

The reason is that those are the individuals who are willing to put themselves in harm's way in order to defend America.

The Columbia crew put themselves in harm's way and, as has happened countless times since man first voyaged into a hostile element in a man-made craft, they died at the edges of the envelope of what humans have dared to do.

If God protected all such endevours with absolute safety, then we who are left behind would have no appreciation of what heroism is.

[Jimmyclyde]

At least one, a Saudi who went up on the Shuttle. Would they have celebrated if his flight had crashed?

No, they would just blame it on the Jews.

There's an old arab proverb which says; "It's the Jews fault we suck." Or something like that.

[sweetliberty]

"The Bible also says that God has made the rain fall on both the good and evil"

And in the first plagues of Egypt, God's people suffered right alongside the Egyptians. They had frogs in thier beds and their water turned to blood too. It wasn't until the fourth plague that He separated His own from the sufferings of Egypt. I suspect that a little weeding out occurred during that time and we also know from the scriptures that a few Egyptians joined the ranks of the believers when they were finally delivered from slavery under Pharoah.

[MeekOneGOP]

I believe I read this was it's 28th trip.

Oh, btw, next time ya talk to God (re: #91), can you put in a good word for me?

[sweetliberty]

"I talked to God and he told me that he wasn't going to be responsible for an old shuttle falling to pieces since he had given us enough money to build new ones and we had failed to do so"

ROTFL! That may be one of the most sensible posts on this thread.