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“Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the

day He visits us.”

1 Peter 2:12

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Protect ALL LIFE, حماية كل الحياة ،

INCLUDING the UNBORN !

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Monday, April 4, 2016

INSIGHTFUL, WORTH TAKING SERIOUS TIME TO READ: "Challenging Radical Islam" by John A. Azumah | Articles | First Things

YOU HEAR all the media & others repeatedly saying "not all muslims are terrorist" in a simplistic mantra...so simplistic it becomes annoying & bothersome, so that many people have a knee-jerk reaction against it, as if we are all a bunch of dumb 3rd-graders. Here is a more intellectual explanation of those who proclaim not all muslims are terrorists, speaking to us as adults. 

"...There are four main schools of law for Sunnis (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali schools) and one for Shi'ites (Ja'fari). The main distinctions between these schools lie in divergent opinions about authoritative sources or roots of law. All accept the Qur'an and the sunnah (Muhammad's example) as foundational but differ on the importance of consensus in collective scholarly reasonin
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ahhabi Islam, has exported Wahhabism to parts of Africa, Asia, and the West through scholarships and the funding of radical mosques, preachers, and groups. Al-Qaeda is a direct spinoff of Wahhabi Islam, and IS an outgrowth from al-Qaeda, while the origins of Boko Haram lie in a network of Wahhabi-Salafi groups in Nigeria. This religious context provides the framework...

  Islamic terrorist groups are also at odds with all the main traditions of Islam. All four orthodox schools of law, including the conservative Hanbali school, declare that women, children, the elderly, the disabled, priests, traders, farmers, and all noncombatant civilians should not be targeted and killed in a jihad. Places of..."