Islamic Vengeance and Excuses

Islamic Vengeance and Excuses

Revenge may be a dish best served cold but when it comes to Koranic vengeance it’s usually meted out blazing hot.

Islam’s Koran is big on revenge, vengeance, retaliations, and reprisals. As for forgiveness, understanding, brotherhood, and love, the Koran isn’t as big on those.

Whether it’s a Salman Rushdie, a woman found guilty of adultery, a nation found complicit in desecrating Muslim lands, or virtually anyone who in any way offends the Prophet Muhammad, Islam, “the religion of peace,” Muslims, or the Holy Koran, the verdict is always the same: death.

Rushdie’s publication of The Satanic Verses–a novel, for Allah’s sake!–was deemed blasphemous and a fatwā, an Islamic religious ruling, a scholarly opinion on a matter of Islamic law, was issued against him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie’s death. On the other hand, no fatwās are required before adulterous women are stoned to death and none were issued before Islam attacked America and murdered almost 3000 innocents on September 11th, 2001.

Muslims can be fickle with issuance of their fatwās.

Fatwās seem incidental when sweet vengeance beckons Muslims. In fact, Muslims seem to have the capacity to wreak vengeance at the drop of a keffiyeh. They need little excuse to riot, kill, and generally commit mayhem, unless a collective conscious feeling of inferiority is considered an excuse.

Islam has an admirable history of accomplishment in science. medicine, education, agriculture, engineering, the arts, and other fields dating back to its Golden Age. Regrettably for Muslims, that age ended seven hundred years ago. Today’s heirs to that rich legacy must ask themselves, What have we done lately?

The answer is little or nothing along the lines of science, medicine, etc. although they have continued their age-old traditions of brutal violence against fellow Muslims and, when that gets boring, against hated infidels, i.e., anyone who isn’t a Muslim.

Discoveries of black gold, oil, in the Mideast have enabled some limited few Muslims to accumulate wealth beyond imagining, leaving the billion or so left out of the oil loop to continue wondering. Western advancements and technology accorded those select few their wealth and palaces and despotic regimes but that reality afforded no solace to those on the outside.

It’s enough to get a billion or so people annoyed and to seek other avenues of self-esteem, reasons, excuses and rationales to make them feel better about themselves . . .
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