Dear Sunni Man: The best way you and I can help overcome these issues is to bring together partnerships with likeminded people from the Jewish/Christian/Muslim communities. This fulfills and reinforces the teachings of Mohammad to love all people of the Book, and to follow the whole of the law including Jewish Torah/Christian scripture/Muslim Quran. The Christian scriptures tell believers not to hold "anger in our hearts toward our brothers" but to heal and correct injustice with loving forgiveness, charity and restitution to pay any debts we owe. The Uncle of the suspected bombers issued a statement that calls for this level of accountability and forgiveness, and needs help to honor this level of justice.
From Jews Christians and Muslims together. The families, community and world need this level of healing, peace and justice, not compromising one for the other. The truth will set us free from compromise, strife and suffering over conflicts by resolving them peacefully.
you cannot achieve this peace by being angry and hateful, so that is where the Christian component within Islam is our saving grace. the Uncle has this, and so do other members of teh Jewish Christian and Muslim community. Look up Peter Loth and Bernie Glassman. I am friends with Olivia Reiner and Mustafaa Carroll in Houston, and Olivia's husband and friends with the Jewish community know Peter Loth personally. There must be forgiveness if we are going to come together to make corrections by God's laws uniting us all.
Please give your anger to God through Christ, and let God carry the responsibility not you.
We cannot function and carry anger at the same time.
May peace be upon you and the wisdom of God fill you instead of any anger.
I am sorry you are in such a difficult position, where if you do not express anger then it appears you side with the terrorists. But look at the Uncle's words and see how he said it.
It is clear he is aggrieved and acknowledges these terrorists do not deserve to live.
Yet he speaks with compassion, with righteous indignance at the injustice. And his words calling to take responsibility for asking forgiveness, that is truly noble and righteous.
He is not saying that just to clear himself, but is speaking truth from the heart of God.
So may that same clarity and conviction be upon you and guide you the same way.
If you can see how to focus this way, then together we can pray for all the others who are aggrieved about war to choose the path of the Uncle and not the path of the terrorists.
You can sympathize with them as human beings, who need more support not to go withthe wrong influences, but not enable more such terrorist acts. The Uncle and Dad did try to keep the sons and the wife from going to the extreme path; but they did not have enough support. They needed more help to intervene, instead of just letting the worst develop.
So you and other Muslim believers face this same dilemma, of how to intervene to
prevent this, and not tolerate or enable people to continue on the wrong path.
We do need to address this, and join the Uncle in calling for more corrective and preventative measures as he started to lose his family members even before this happened.
We need to do more, and it will take a collaborative effort of Jews Christians and Muslims coming together in the same spirit of Christ that the Uncle called out for.
I pray you receive this same strength and that all others in the same position
also hear his prayer and agree to come forward and support to answer it.
It may be too late for the nephews, but there are many more we can
help to come forward and turn things around before any more violence happens.
I pray with you that all people who share this same vision come forth
and fulfill the teachings of the Jewish/Christian/Muslim combined
as believers under the sacred laws fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
With love and peace
God's grace and wisdom
Yours truly,
Emily
(CNN) -- I'm an American-Muslim and I despise Islamic terrorists. In fact, despise is not even a strong enough word to convey my true feelings about those who kill innocent people in the name of Islam. I hate them with every fiber of my being.
I'm not going to tell you, "Islam is a religion of peace." Nor will I tell you that Islam is a religion of violence. What I will say is that Islam is a religion that, like Christianity and Judaism, is intended to bring you closer to God. And sadly we have seen people use the name of each of these Abrahamic faiths to wage and justify violence.
The unique problem for Muslims is that our faith is being increasingly defined by the actions of a tiny group of morally bankrupt terrorists. Just to be clear: The people who commit violence in the name of Islam are not Muslims, they are murderers. Their true religion is hatred and inhumanity.
The only people terrorists speak for are themselves and the others involved in their despicable plot. They do not represent me, my family or any other Muslim I know. And believe me, I know a lot of Muslims.
Read more at the link.
I'm a Muslim, and I hate terrorism - CNN.com
You can hate war and terrorism, but you must forgive it first.
Or else you will get emotionally caught up in the same. You can do more to correct the problems by removing the negative attachments of fear and hate by forgiveness first; then we can all see more clearly what steps to take to prevent abuse and conflict from escalating to violence and war.
