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Thursday, December 29, 2005Muslim family values?So a man in Pakistan killed his daughters and his adult stepsister lest they become adulterers one day. Will Muslims unite in condemning this loon and the other Muslim men so lacking in honor that the slaughter or weak and powerless women is their only means of validation? Or will they sit on their hands? If Muslims stay their tongues in the faces of such horrors, we must assume that they approve. After all, they surely don't so doubt the power of the word of Allah as to fear that speaking the truth about these abuses of His name would diminish, rather than elevate, His glory. Do they? The Koran opens with the phrase, "In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate." These slaughters show neither mercy nor compassion except in the vein in which Andrea Yates drowned her children. Confronted with such a person in the United States, the question was whether she was a monster or a madwoman. A jury ruled for the former. If Muslims, by contrast, are torn between calling their Andrea Yates overzealous or a man of supreme devotion, it is safe to judge that religion's adherents sick, whatever the value of the abstract but unpracticed Islam that succeeded Judaism and Christianity as the third major monotheistic faith tradition to spring from the cradle of civilization. One would hope to soon hear the leading voices for the Islamic faith speak out against this horror. The amount of time and teaching they spend on this will ultimately be shown to be proportional to the degree in which they regard woman as human beings... and human beings as creations of Allah's will, rather than clay vessels to be smashed and strewn by Nietzchean superman who have replaced God with themselves. 
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