Pure Evil: ISIS Beheads British Aid Worker David Haines
Steve Robson writes the Mirror/UK that a new video has been released purporting to show the 44-year-old aid worker being executed by a black-clad ISIS member:
David Cawthorne Haines helped those in need in some of the most hostile environments in the world.The Scots-educated aid worker spent 11 years in the military before going to work for charities in Libya and South Sudan during periods of extreme violence, according to his LinkedIn page.
He was in Libya during its civil war in 2011, according to his online CV, working as head of mission for Handicap International, which helps disabled people in poverty and conflict zones around the world.
Understand that this is not some misunderstanding of Islam. From thereligionofpeace.com:
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.
...Most of today's Muslims exercise a personal choice to interpret their holy book's call to arms according to their own moral preconceptions about justifiable violence. Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.
Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. Muhammad's own martial legacy - and that of his companions - along with the remarkable stress on violence found in the Quran have produced a trail of blood and tears across world history.
There may be bad ideology involved, but the people involved in jihad are evil also. Some judgments simply must be made even if it means condemning people who were raised to believe their actions were right, and number 1 has to be that killing people merely for holding or not holding a belief is murder.
jdgalt at September 13, 2014 6:12 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/09/13/pure_evil_isis.html#comment-5074908">comment from jdgaltThe ideology is enabling of evil.
I'm a atheist and have issues with all religions for various reasons.
However, here was a guy who was likely a Christian (if not a secularist) or was probably raised Christian. I can get behind the Jesus stuff -- feed the poor!, for example. Not only the poor Christians. The poor.
Then there's this: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/027-disaster-relief.htm
Amy Alkon at September 13, 2014 6:37 PM
I kill you for God.
Past time to turn sand to glass.
Dave B at September 13, 2014 8:30 PM
"Past time to turn sand to glass."
There has to be a way to suck the oil out from the side once everything on top turns into a shiny ashtray.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at September 14, 2014 9:13 PM
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