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UNESCO official: Killing in the name of Islam is un-Islamic
JPost Reg reqâd EFL - she wonât last long speaking such blasphemy
Men and women who carry out suicide bombing attacks allegedly in the name of Islam are not real Muslims, Aicha Bah-Diallo, UNESCO Assistant Deputy Director General for Education told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
| Of course they're not. They're wahhabis... |
"You cannot understand it because she (in the case of a woman suicide bomber) did not do it as a Muslim, because in Islam you cannot kill," said Bah-Diallo, from Guinea in West Africa and herself a Muslim.
| That sure isn't in the Koran... |
"Life has been given by God, so how can someone take it away — their own life and that of others? . . . Thatâs why Iâm saying, she did not do it as a Muslim," said Bah-Diallo, when asked about the suicide attack by a Palestinian woman at Haifaâs Maxim restaurant a month ago in which 21 people were killed. "In the origins of Islam, there is no violence. Mohammad the prophet said he built his mosque for God and all the monotheists could come and pray in his mosque, and he was the one who was protecting all monotheist believers.
| Except that only Muslims are considered monotheists. And only some Muslims, at that... |
"If you donât believe in Adam, Abraham and Jesus Christ, you are not a Muslim. People should know that . . . The Koran is built on tolerance."
WTF? It is?
Bah-Diallo is among dozens of top-ranking women from nearly 40 countries taking part in a week-long interational symposium on "Womenâs Voice in Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building" at the Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center in Haifa. The event, which officially opened on Sunday, is being sponsored by MASHAV, the Foreign Ministryâs Center for International Cooperation, in conjunction with Soroptimist International of Israel. Bah-Diallo stressed the need to give women a more leading role in trying to develop dialog between Israelis and Palestinians and promoting education on both sides that places more emphasis on common factors and less on differences. "I really believe that women have to be part of peace-building. We are more numerous than men and we have many roles to play. We are mothers, we are sisters, we are citizens and we have more feeling towards peace than men," she said in a special interview with the "Post." "I have seen many women, Palestinians and Israelis, who are trying to bring people together and talk to each other. You cannot kill somebody you have been talking to and working with.
| Oh, sure you can. It's done all the time... |
"It is so importannt to go back to dialog — to sit around the table and — talk to each other, get to know each other and get to see what unites you and build on that and minimize what divides you.
| What happens is that you sit around passing gas and drinking tea, talk to each other, get to know each other, discover you really don't like each other, and then have at it with cudgels. From there things go downhill and people are exploding in every direction. Myself, I prefer to remain stand-offish. |
"This dialog is very important, but I donât see women around the (negotiating) table. . . Most of the time it is men. . . Maybe when we will have more women around the table for dialog it will be better."
| And maybe when we grow out of this multicultural we-can-all-get-along claptrap we'll live in an adult world... |
Bah-Diallo is a firm believer that peace and resolving conflict begins at home and that it is important teach children the concept of learning to live together and how to accept differences from a very early age.
Those kind of ideas will get a Fatwa on ya faster than you can say: "Religion of Peaceâ¢"
Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-03 |
