Comments on: Reconciliation – Islamic Sulha / Musalaha

By: TDI

TDI — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:08:08 +0000

I would add to this wise comment Elaine, I pray for the peace of God and the tolerance He has to live through in these weird and horrible times until Jesus comes again – hopefully quickly!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:38:48 +0000

It only takes a few evil people and a number of blind followers to bring killing and war. I know my own heart and if I was threatened I would struggle with desires for revenge and punishment.

And I am upset about the continuing decimation of reasonable morality in our society in the name of freedom – as the Bible says, “Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.”

Last year I was so heartened to read a story about a community that stood up for Christians who were being attacked by certain “Muslims.” When the members surrounded the Christians the attackers stopped.

I pray that good Muslims will continue to stand up for peace and tolerance.

By: john

john — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:48:51 +0000

while i agree that islam is not always a peaceful religion (in fact, it glorifies jihad or holy war), the killing of the kurds by saddam hussein had nothing to do with islam any more than hitler’s killing of the jews had to do with christianity. it was ethnic cleansing pure and simple. unfortunately, “christians” are not exempt from practising this. also, 9/11 was not really about islam fighting against christianity; it was at least as much, if not more, motivated by the hatred of the u.s.a. by people who felt themselves exploited. it was chanelled into a jihad mentality by osama bin laden for his own purposes, but was at base more related to the conflict between the palestinians and israel than between islam and christianity.

By: Winnie Schertz

Winnie Schertz — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:59:07 +0000

The idea that Islam is a peaceful religion fails to consider the violent nature of the spread of this religion among the nations. This political system rules by fear, and terror.

People in USA don’t seem to be able to grasp the critical nature of our relations with Islam. To say they are peaceful is to ignore the 30,000 Kurds who were murdered without cause by Sadam Hussein. To say it is a peaceful religion is to say that the terrorists who attacked on 9/ll/01 were not acting in obedience to their leader’s instructions.

And, I believe, we need to address this without fear or confusion.

Their Imams often tell them that suicide-bombings are the surest way to get to heaven!

That is anything but peaceful!

We want to win their hearts to Christ with love and grace, but we must be honest about who we are dealing with…
The family of Brigette Gabrielle was very kind to their Muslim neighbors, but they attacked them with the obvious intent to kill them.

This requires a level of wisdom and grace of which we are only capable with God’s supernatural power.

We serve the God who created this earth. This is HIS kingdom, and we will be covered by His wing, but let’s not pretend we are dealing with quiet little peasants here. Sometimes these people are truly willing to die for what they believe; and they do plan to take advantage of that ticket to heaven!

By: Dr. Jan H. Boer

Dr. Jan H. Boer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:07:50 +0000

Thank you for your comments on sulhu. Very good.
However, your comments re discord among Muslims leaves out the Western input through colonialism and afterwards. The West has drawn so many artificial borders, separated brothers/sisters, placed unrelated peoples within artificial borders, distorted economies and cultures, sought to undermine Islam with its secularism. Most serious problems among them have at the bottom a Western crime. Authority for my comments can be found in my writings. See website.