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Originally Posted by mindfulcoug
islam does respect people's lives ,thats why there is death penalty for someone who has committed first degree murder,so now ...lets see if we could give the same value to the spirit as well.. i mean sentencing death penalty for someone who is intentionally desteroying people's belief .. how rational it might sound to you ?
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This is where we suffer a disconnect. I heard a Muslim cleric (radio interview)defend the violence over the Muhammed cartoon using the same logic; the violence was justified because the offense was similar to an act of war. This is something our modern Western society does not understand.