I fought a lil bit of Islamic ignorance today....

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hanging around talking about what everyone else was talking about.

One of the participants of the conversation made a comment along the lines of ‘bomb them all’.

Who?

‘All of them. Damn Muslims.’

Another interjection: ‘What in their religion makes them think this is right?’

‘I don’t know. Ask Ebay.’

Three voices, in tandem: ‘Ebay?!?’

Ebay is the nickname for Ibrahima Kaba, our co-worker from Guinea. He’s one of those people that everyone knows, and everyone likes him. Just an easygoing, personable, likeable nice guy who works as an IT type at my job and who was, for a while, in our department. He’s one of those people that everyone loves. Few bad words are ever said about him, and those few words that ARE bad are tempered by ‘But he’s such a nice GUY!!’.

He’s Muslim.

I wish I could explain in words the expression on the faces present, but…let’s just say they were pricesless.

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Madam, permit me to buy you a beer.

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thanks for that [chique], thought-provoking indeed!

you quoted: “‘What in their religion makes them think this is right?’”

with all this ignorance floatin’ around i guess the following fatwa i picked up on http://www.fatwa-online.com will come as a “revelation” to many:

Hijacking planes and kidnapping

From that which is known to everyone who has the slightest bit of common sense is that hijacking airplanes and kidnapping children and the like are extremely great crimes, the world over. Their evil effects are far and wide, as is the great harm and inconvenience caused to the innocent; the total effect of which none can comprehend except Allaah.

Likewise, from that which is known is that these crimes are not specific to any particular country over and above another country, nor any specific group over and above another group, rather it encompasses the whole world.

There is no doubt about the effect of these crimes; so it is obligatory upon the governments and those responsible from amongst the scholars and other than them to afford these issues great concern, and to exert themselves as much as possible in ending this evil.

Shaykh Ibn Baaz
Kayfa Nu’aalij Waaqi’unaa al-Aleem - Page 108-109