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		<title>By: Rafay</title>
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		<description>Not that I ascribe to its contents, I wanted to share an email I got today.

A German View on Islam

This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I
have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read.

The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well
respected psychiatrist.

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a
number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people
were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward
fanaticism.  &#039;Very few people were true Nazis,&#039; he said, &#039;but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen.

Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the
end of the world had come. My family lost everything.  I ended up in a
concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.

We are told again and again by &#039;experts&#039; and &#039;talking heads&#039; that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.

It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to
somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is
the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder or honor-kill.  It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the &#039;silent
majority,&#039; is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in
peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China &#039;s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists
managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war
mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were &#039;peace loving&#039;?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our
powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don&#039;t speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs,
Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many
others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak u p until it
was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is not serious and just deletes
this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness that
allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on
and on and on!

Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this and think about it, and
send it on before it&#039;s too late.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not that I ascribe to its contents, I wanted to share an email I got today.</p>
<p>A German View on Islam</p>
<p>This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I<br />
have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read.</p>
<p>The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well<br />
respected psychiatrist.</p>
<p>A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a<br />
number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people<br />
were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward<br />
fanaticism.  &#8216;Very few people were true Nazis,&#8217; he said, &#8216;but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen.</p>
<p>Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the<br />
end of the world had come. My family lost everything.  I ended up in a<br />
concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.</p>
<p>We are told again and again by &#8216;experts&#8217; and &#8216;talking heads&#8217; that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.</p>
<p>It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to<br />
somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.</p>
<p>The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is<br />
the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder or honor-kill.  It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.</p>
<p>The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the &#8216;silent<br />
majority,&#8217; is cowed and extraneous.</p>
<p>Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in<br />
peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.</p>
<p>China &#8216;s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists<br />
managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.</p>
<p>The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war<br />
mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.</p>
<p>And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were &#8216;peace loving&#8217;?</p>
<p>History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our<br />
powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:<br />
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.<br />
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don&#8217;t speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.</p>
<p>Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs,<br />
Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many<br />
others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak u p until it<br />
was too late.</p>
<p>As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.</p>
<p>Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is not serious and just deletes<br />
this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness that<br />
allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on<br />
and on and on!</p>
<p>Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this and think about it, and<br />
send it on before it&#8217;s too late.</p>
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		<title>By: dcruncher</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12574</link>
		<dc:creator>dcruncher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wake up hasan. get out of denial mode. the whipping of 17 yr old in swat few days back was declared as 100% quranic.
&quot;Mufti Muniber Rehman, a leaving islamic scholar in a televised debate said “how can we call it unislamic. this is the punishment that is written in holy quran”.&quot;

You know muslims can&#039;t think when it comes to Quran. I and my murtad friend once were pulling the leg of a aashiqu-e-rasool type muslim.
very nice person. my friend and he had the following conversation

my murtad friend: &quot;so you think it is appropriate to stone someone to death for adultry&quot;.
the other friend: No No. I can&#039;t agree to that. it is not islamic.
my murtad friend: so you disagree with quran.
the other friend: no, i never said that. why are u putting words in my mouth.
my murtad friend: so you want stoning as a punishment for adultry.
the other friend: no. didn&#039;t you hear me. I already said no.
my murtad friend: so you disagree with quran.
....
it went on. I was having a tough time controlling my laughter. One one had the humanity in the other friend prevented him from agreeing to stoning as a punishment for adultery. However his blind adherence to quran and islam refused him to question and disagree with quran. This
is what islam reduces people to. Blind zombies.

for the last many years (since 9/11), opinion polls in pakistan suggest that majority of pakistanis want pakistan to be governed more by islamic rule. they want islam more in pakistan. they want sharia in pakistan. hello, what is happening in swat is that only. so now why pakistanis are crying about swat. this is the jannat they wanted. now they are getting it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wake up hasan. get out of denial mode. the whipping of 17 yr old in swat few days back was declared as 100% quranic.<br />
&quot;Mufti Muniber Rehman, a leaving islamic scholar in a televised debate said “how can we call it unislamic. this is the punishment that is written in holy quran”.&quot;</p>
<p>You know muslims can&#8217;t think when it comes to Quran. I and my murtad friend once were pulling the leg of a aashiqu-e-rasool type muslim.<br />
very nice person. my friend and he had the following conversation</p>
<p>my murtad friend: &quot;so you think it is appropriate to stone someone to death for adultry&quot;.<br />
the other friend: No No. I can&#8217;t agree to that. it is not islamic.<br />
my murtad friend: so you disagree with quran.<br />
the other friend: no, i never said that. why are u putting words in my mouth.<br />
my murtad friend: so you want stoning as a punishment for adultry.<br />
the other friend: no. didn&#8217;t you hear me. I already said no.<br />
my murtad friend: so you disagree with quran.<br />
&#8230;.<br />
it went on. I was having a tough time controlling my laughter. One one had the humanity in the other friend prevented him from agreeing to stoning as a punishment for adultery. However his blind adherence to quran and islam refused him to question and disagree with quran. This<br />
is what islam reduces people to. Blind zombies.</p>
<p>for the last many years (since 9/11), opinion polls in pakistan suggest that majority of pakistanis want pakistan to be governed more by islamic rule. they want islam more in pakistan. they want sharia in pakistan. hello, what is happening in swat is that only. so now why pakistanis are crying about swat. this is the jannat they wanted. now they are getting it.</p>
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		<title>By: Hasan Mubarak</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12573</link>
		<dc:creator>Hasan Mubarak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Islam hasn&#039;t, some Muslims have. Wake up my friend, talk mature!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Islam hasn&#8217;t, some Muslims have. Wake up my friend, talk mature!</p>
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		<title>By: dcruncher</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12572</link>
		<dc:creator>dcruncher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>another display of love by our islamists brothers towards shias.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7984105.stm

A simple calculation will tell that more number of shias have been killed than muslims in India by kaafir hindus. why doesn&#039;t anyone talk about that.

Fact is, islam has divided people more than its claims of uniting people.

shias vs sunnis
shia/sunni vs Qadianis
all vs kurds

all ready to kill each other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>another display of love by our islamists brothers towards shias.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7984105.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7984105.stm</a></p>
<p>A simple calculation will tell that more number of shias have been killed than muslims in India by kaafir hindus. why doesn&#8217;t anyone talk about that.</p>
<p>Fact is, islam has divided people more than its claims of uniting people.</p>
<p>shias vs sunnis<br />
shia/sunni vs Qadianis<br />
all vs kurds</p>
<p>all ready to kill each other.</p>
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		<title>By: dcruncher</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12571</link>
		<dc:creator>dcruncher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>congrats. Hamid Karzai has interpreted quran and islam correctly. Afghanistan is bringing a law in which husband can rape wife.
He is only following islam correctly. see below.

&quot;Allah declares: &quot;Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them&quot; -- Koran 4:34.

Muhammad said: &quot;If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.&quot; -- Bukhari 4.54.460.

Muhammad says: &quot;By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel&#039;s saddle.&quot; -- Ibn Majah 1854 .&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>congrats. Hamid Karzai has interpreted quran and islam correctly. Afghanistan is bringing a law in which husband can rape wife.<br />
He is only following islam correctly. see below.</p>
<p>&quot;Allah declares: &quot;Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them&quot; &#8212; Koran 4:34.</p>
<p>Muhammad said: &quot;If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.&quot; &#8212; Bukhari 4.54.460.</p>
<p>Muhammad says: &quot;By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel&#8217;s saddle.&quot; &#8212; Ibn Majah 1854 .&quot;</p>
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		<title>By: dcruncher</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12570</link>
		<dc:creator>dcruncher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Compare Germany&#039;s attitude vs Pakistan&#039;s attitude. We killed 3 million Bengalis in 1971 and to date the perpetrators were (are) not punished. Nothing is taught in our school books as to how we treated our bengali brothers from 1947 to 1971 and why the country was split. Did I say intellectual honesty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Compare Germany&#8217;s attitude vs Pakistan&#8217;s attitude. We killed 3 million Bengalis in 1971 and to date the perpetrators were (are) not punished. Nothing is taught in our school books as to how we treated our bengali brothers from 1947 to 1971 and why the country was split. Did I say intellectual honesty.</p>
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		<title>By: dcruncher</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12569</link>
		<dc:creator>dcruncher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>aamna, why get angry? because truth hurts. Why can&#039;t you answer my questions. When islam accepts people from other religions publicly, why can&#039;t islam allow people to voice their opinion as to why they left. if islam is strong for you and others, someone voicing his opinion must make
no difference, right? But muslims are so insecure about their religion that not only they disallow anyone leaving, but talking about it invites death penalty.

denying holocaust is against law only in Germany and one/two more countries. Don&#039;t generalize it as in all christian countries. Germans are so ashamed as to what happened during WW2 and what was done by their forefathers to jews that they are leaving no stones unturned in their history text books. this is called intellectual honesty. to admit that you were once wrong in your actions.

anyhow Pakistan is getting 100% sharia islam now. so you must be happy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>aamna, why get angry? because truth hurts. Why can&#8217;t you answer my questions. When islam accepts people from other religions publicly, why can&#8217;t islam allow people to voice their opinion as to why they left. if islam is strong for you and others, someone voicing his opinion must make<br />
no difference, right? But muslims are so insecure about their religion that not only they disallow anyone leaving, but talking about it invites death penalty.</p>
<p>denying holocaust is against law only in Germany and one/two more countries. Don&#8217;t generalize it as in all christian countries. Germans are so ashamed as to what happened during WW2 and what was done by their forefathers to jews that they are leaving no stones unturned in their history text books. this is called intellectual honesty. to admit that you were once wrong in your actions.</p>
<p>anyhow Pakistan is getting 100% sharia islam now. so you must be happy.</p>
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		<title>By: aamna</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12568</link>
		<dc:creator>aamna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yep, dcruncher, you&#039;re completely whacked. Leave Islam if you don&#039;t understand its concepts, it&#039;s a private thing, why the heck do you want to leave it publicly? And while you&#039;re at it, get some counselling. 

Go to some country where the state religion is Christianity, the religon you seem to like, and try to deny the Holocaust, or criticize the extent to which it is propogated. See what happens to you. (Disclaimer: I do not have anything against Christianity or Judaism, at least not anything that I want to voice &#039;publicly&#039;. Just wanted to make a point.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yep, dcruncher, you&#8217;re completely whacked. Leave Islam if you don&#8217;t understand its concepts, it&#8217;s a private thing, why the heck do you want to leave it publicly? And while you&#8217;re at it, get some counselling. </p>
<p>Go to some country where the state religion is Christianity, the religon you seem to like, and try to deny the Holocaust, or criticize the extent to which it is propogated. See what happens to you. (Disclaimer: I do not have anything against Christianity or Judaism, at least not anything that I want to voice &#8216;publicly&#8217;. Just wanted to make a point.)</p>
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		<title>By: dcruncher</title>
		<link>http://lahore.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/how/comment-page-1/#comment-12567</link>
		<dc:creator>dcruncher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>azface, 

&quot;We have to appreciate that people in Pakistan are deeply respectful of their faith. We have to accept that whether we like it or not.&quot;

sure. like the beating of 17yr old girl in Swat yesterday.
Why is everyone saying that the lashing of the 17 yr old is unislamic. On the contrary it is 100% unadulterated islam.

Mufti Muniber Rehman, a leaving islamic scholar in a televised debate said “how can we call it unislamic. this is the punishment that is written in holy quran”.

let us all respect &#039;their&#039; islam.

There can not be any progress in islamic society unless and until the religion is decoupled from public life. I wish I live long enough to see that day when restaraunts remain open during ramzaan roza so that those
who don&#039;t want to keep roza can eat. I wish I live long enough to see that day when TV news channel break the breaking news that Shoaib Akhtar has left islam and has converted to Christianity and nothing happens to him.

http://www.geocities.com/fpmuhammad</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>azface, </p>
<p>&quot;We have to appreciate that people in Pakistan are deeply respectful of their faith. We have to accept that whether we like it or not.&quot;</p>
<p>sure. like the beating of 17yr old girl in Swat yesterday.<br />
Why is everyone saying that the lashing of the 17 yr old is unislamic. On the contrary it is 100% unadulterated islam.</p>
<p>Mufti Muniber Rehman, a leaving islamic scholar in a televised debate said “how can we call it unislamic. this is the punishment that is written in holy quran”.</p>
<p>let us all respect &#8216;their&#8217; islam.</p>
<p>There can not be any progress in islamic society unless and until the religion is decoupled from public life. I wish I live long enough to see that day when restaraunts remain open during ramzaan roza so that those<br />
who don&#8217;t want to keep roza can eat. I wish I live long enough to see that day when TV news channel break the breaking news that Shoaib Akhtar has left islam and has converted to Christianity and nothing happens to him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/fpmuhammad" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/fpmuhammad</a></p>
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		<title>By: skypilot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please pardon my input but I have a fond affection for Lahore.  I have visited Lahore twice (2004 and 2007) and plan on visited again this year.  The recent violence is indeed distressing but I doubt that it is specific to any one religion.  Violence is specific to the human condition.  Religion can offer an &quot;excuse&quot; to violence or even an channel for that violence but is not the root cause of violence.  I suspect that greed is the root cause...if there be just one.  The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah was correct when he stated that:

 “The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable.
      No one can understand how deceitful it is.
     I, the LORD, search minds and test hearts.
      I will reward each person for what he has done.
      I will reward him for the results of his actions. (Jeremiah 17)

I am not a muslim but I respect any who desire morality and purity before God.  I happen to be an American who cares about the future of Pakistan.  One writer above believes that Americans have a part-time kind of faith.  Many do....but not all.   I suspect part-time faith is a universal problem....even among those of Islam.  

Why so common?  Perhaps we have not considered that all of us will be personally tested by the LORD...and that is a fearful prospect if we are guilty of violence against those whom He loves....and I believe He is universal in His love.

I will pray that peace will come to Pakistan and Lahore.  I will pray also that the Rule of Law will abide.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please pardon my input but I have a fond affection for Lahore.  I have visited Lahore twice (2004 and 2007) and plan on visited again this year.  The recent violence is indeed distressing but I doubt that it is specific to any one religion.  Violence is specific to the human condition.  Religion can offer an &quot;excuse&quot; to violence or even an channel for that violence but is not the root cause of violence.  I suspect that greed is the root cause&#8230;if there be just one.  The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah was correct when he stated that:</p>
<p> “The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable.<br />
      No one can understand how deceitful it is.<br />
     I, the LORD, search minds and test hearts.<br />
      I will reward each person for what he has done.<br />
      I will reward him for the results of his actions. (Jeremiah 17)</p>
<p>I am not a muslim but I respect any who desire morality and purity before God.  I happen to be an American who cares about the future of Pakistan.  One writer above believes that Americans have a part-time kind of faith.  Many do&#8230;.but not all.   I suspect part-time faith is a universal problem&#8230;.even among those of Islam.  </p>
<p>Why so common?  Perhaps we have not considered that all of us will be personally tested by the LORD&#8230;and that is a fearful prospect if we are guilty of violence against those whom He loves&#8230;.and I believe He is universal in His love.</p>
<p>I will pray that peace will come to Pakistan and Lahore.  I will pray also that the Rule of Law will abide.</p>
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