1091 people were killed in Bagdhad in April.  What are some things religions can do to help?
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great question.\n\nwe should stop talking about all the theoretical and theological aspects of our faith, and start DOing something about it!\n\ni wish i had a real answer for you other than that.\nas for as i can see it we can each only do our part: that means loving our neighbors, spreading the notion of peace, preaching a spirituality of love and acceptance, etc.\n\nif you agree at all then you should read the book: "buried alive - a discussion on overcoming the seven lifeless sins".\nit's the best book i've ever read.  and it's relevant to nearly every aspect of life!
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Forgiveness.\n\nWhat comes around, goes around and God DOES serve justice to those who hurt others.\n\nOne of my best friends died because the people who were with her did not get her help because they were afraid of getting in trouble as well.  It is something that I've struggled with for years.  The only thing you can really do is accept the reality of the situation and put God in control of your emotions.\n\nLetting go of hate is hard, and believe me, revenge seems like the best way to make those feelings go away.  Unfortunately, there's nothing you can possibly do that could hurt the person as much as they've hurt you.  Just take solace in the fact that this person has to live with the guilt of allowing someone to die because they were too scared about their own well-being than to help them.
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I don't know but praying to "god" never helps the situation but making donations to charities that try to find cures is the best way.\n\nI grieve for the innocents that die everyday but some christians claim no one is innocent, " we are born into sin" which is imbecilic.
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You can use video clips of earthquake and wreckage from Pakistan from a little while ago. You could bring up the number of people killed, etc.
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If you are a true muslim then help clear the misunderstandings! Do something for you community if it hurts you so much to see whats going around! I am an indian hindu woman and just a few days back in our country, in varanasi, their was a bomb blast in a Hindu temple! Lots of people died and many were injured! This thing could have taken an ugly turn but fortunately a very famous muslim musician of our country stood up for his community and publicly criticised the terrorist who had commited the crime! He accepted the fact that due to a few muslim terrorists the whole community is suffering! He even said that he wont play his instrument(shehanai) to grieve for this incident! He organised blood donation camps , where muslims donated blood for hindu people! now this is the way to show the world that all is not lost yet! Misconceptions created by a few people, wether they are muslims or not, can be cleared by responsible citizens like us who care not for religion but for humanity which is the biggest religion of all!
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These links answer your question:\n\nhttp://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1123996015602&pagename=IslamOnline-English-AAbout_Islam/AskAboutIslamE/AskAboutIslamE\n\nhttp://www.answering-christianity.com/bassam_zawadi/killing_of_dogs.htm
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is this a scare?  \n\nFrom 1894 to 1896 Abdul Hamid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, killed 150,000 Armenian Christians.\n\nIn India, Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur along with his disciples was burned to death by the Moghul ruler Aurangzeb in 1675.\nAnother Sikh, Bhai Mati Das was sawn into right and left halves while he was still alive.\n\nFrom 1843 to 1846 10,000 Assyrian Christians including women and children were massacred by the Muslims.\nFrom 1915 to 1918 750,000 Assyrians were killed in the name of Islamic Jihad.\nIn 1933 thousands of Assyrian villagers were murdered by the Iraqi soldiers in Northern Iraq.\nOver 30,000 Mauritanians have been killed by the Islamic dictators since 1960.\nIn July 1974, 4,000 Christians living in Cyprus were killed by Fahri Koroturk, president of Turkey and his Islamic army.\nOver 280,000 Ugandans killed during the reign of Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979.\nGenocide committed in the name of Allah: 3,000,000 Bangladeshi Hindus Killed during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war in 1971.\nIn 1980, 20,000 Syrians were murdered under the rule of Hafez Al-Assad, President of Syria.\nSince 1990 more than 10,000 Kashmiri Hindus have been brutally murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.\nSince 1992 120,000 Algerians have been murdered by the Islamic fundamentalist army.\nonce you realize that all muslims are capable of this, then you'll know what must be done.\nIt is not the terrorists that have hijacked Islam, rather it it is ISLAM that has hijacked the arab world.\n******************************...\n<>The following are muslim attacks against free nations\nor what they call, "the Infidels."\n\n1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)\n1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976\n1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days\n1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979\n1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981\n1981 Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul the Second\n1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982\n1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, April 18,1983\n1983 Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, Oct 23,1983\n1984 Hezbollah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984\n1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985\n1985 Rome Airport murders\n1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered\n1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homicidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq\n1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986\n1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered\n1988 Berlin Discotheque Bombing, Dec 21,1988\n1990 A Muslim Named El Sayyid Nosair Murders Israeli Political activist Meir Kahane. Nov 1990\n1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992\n1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993\n1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions\n1994: A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. It is later discovered that Ramzi Yousef planted a bomb on the aircraft to test a bomb for his terrorist plot.December 11, 1994\n1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994\n1994 A Muslim Named Rashid Baz shoots at a van filled with Hasidic boys, on the Brooklyn bridge murdering one of them. FBI calls it "Road Rage". March 1, 1994\n1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995\n1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995\n1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995\n1996 Khobar Towers attack\n1996 Sudanese Missionaries Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996\n1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996\n1997 At Empire State Building; Ali Abu Kamal shoots at tourists, kills one and wounds six before killing himself, Mayor Giuliani informs the public "he had many enemies in his mind".Feb 24,1997\n1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997\n1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997\n1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998\n1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998\n1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered\n1998 U.S. Tanzan
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Assalam-o-Alaikum\n\nPrayers are prescribed five times a day as a duty towards Allah. They strengthen and enliven the belief in Allah and inspire man to a higher morality. They purify the heart and control the temptation towards wrong doing and evil. It should be stressed that while Allah does not need our prayers we cannot survive without His blessings and guidance. “0 you who believe! Seek help with patient perseverance and prayer, for Allah is with those who patiently persevere.” (Holy Qur'an 2:153) \n\nIt is good that you are trying to learn Namaz, which is one of important pillars of Islam. For this I would suggest that you should contact Imam of nearest Masjid in your locality. \n\nI've found a good website on 'how to offer Namaz' in Urdu language. Visit if you understand Urdu:\nhttp://www.noor-e-hadis.com/namaz_ka_tareqa.htm\n\nGood Luck!
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Yes it does. It also bothers me that people are killed because they have something someone else wants (oil, money, property). Alot more modern wars have been raged because of those things than because of religion....   Jim
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Move to a country that embraces radical Islamist law, join a radical Islamist cult (I suggest the Taliban) and bring your wife in front of the tribal council.  After her sentence of death by stoning has been carried out, you can find yourself a good, obedient wife who knows to keep her mouth shut.\n\nOr,\n\nyou might try marriage counselling...
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yeah I read about the Varanasi blasts, my heart goes out to you guys. \nExtremists are really hard to deal with, I would say that no nation should go without responding to attacks. So the government hsould find the terrorist cells among these people and kill them/arrest them. I know it's easier to say, but well, that's what has to be done. \nIt always upsets me to see power-thirsty leaders twist a religion to make people kill others in the name of it.\n\nADDED:\nand Rev Flavel, people have commited horrific acts in the name of your precious Christianity throughout history and still do, so please....
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By imposing religious values of one religion on all people\n\nIn the Western democracies there is a considerable freedom of religion. &#92;\nOn the other hand in the Muslim countries there is very little or none.\nFor example in Saudi Arabia, travelers have their bibles confiscated. Not-Muslims are not allowed to visit Mecca. The substantial number of Non-Muslims from India, Philippines, and the West are working in Saudi, yet no churches, or temples are allowed. The non-Muslims get arrested for celebrating Christians or Devali in their private homes. The non-Muslims are not even allowed to burry their dead in Saudi, the corpses are being sent back to their countries of origins for burial!\nOther Muslim countries are only slightly less oppressive to their minorities:\nIn Pakistan and Bangladesh Hindus are being so persecuted and their numbers have gone down to just a quarter since independence. \nChristianity used to be just as oppressive as Islam; fortunately it has gradually lost most of its power over the last 5 centuries.
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Any religion among the muslim majority are in great danger
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You son of a b**ch!  I lost 17 members of my family in Buchenwald and I know many, many other Jewish people who also lost family members.  The Germans kept meticulous records and we know for a fact that the numbers are correct.  If you are a Muslim, then no explantion is needed for such hatred.  But if you are a Christian, then you are not following the tenets of your religion and you should be ostracized from the Christian community!
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first of all, about death.Muslims believe that death is a departure from the life of this world, but not the end of a person's existence. Rather, eternal life is to come, and we pray for God's mercy to be with the departed, in hopes that they may find peace and happiness in the life to come.\n\nand the funerals, when a muslim person dies.A family member arranges the funeral immediatly without delay.The eyes of the deceased should be closed, and the body covered temporarily with a clean sheet. It is forbidden for those in mourning to excessively wail, scream, or thrash about. Grief is normal when one has lost a loved one, and it is natural and permitted to cry.\n\nMuslims strive to bury the deceased as soon as possible after death, avoiding the need for embalming or otherwise disturbing the body of the deceased. An autopsy may be performed, if necessary, but should be done with the utmost respect for the dead\n\nIn preparation for burial, the family or other members of the community will wash and shroud the body. (If the deceased was killed as a martyr, this step is not performed; martyrs are buried in the clothes they died in.) The deceased will be washed respectfully, with clean and scented water, in a manner similar to how Muslims make ablutions for prayer. The body will then be wrapped in sheets of clean, white cloth (called the kafan).\n\nThe deceased is then taken to the cemetery for burial (al-dafin). While all members of the community attend the funeral prayers, only the men of the community accompany the body to the gravesite\nThe deceased is laid in the grave (without a coffin if permitted by local law) on his or her right side, facing Mecca. At the gravesite, it is discouraged for people to erect tombstones, elaborate markers, or put flowers or other momentos. Rather, one should humbly remember Allah and His mercy, and pray for the deceased.\n\nLoved ones and relatives are to observe a 3-day mourning period. Mourning is observed in Islam by increased devotion, receiving visitors and condolences, and avoiding decorative clothing and jewelry. Widows observe an extended mourning period (iddah), 4 months and 10 days long, in accordance with the Qur'an 2:234. During this time, she is not to remarry, move from her home, or wear decorative clothing or jewelry.\n\ni hope this is what you were looking for.Sorry if it was too long
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your right..but we cant do too many things at once. beside the middle east is the central point for terrorism, the thing we are fighting mainly for!\n\npeople in africa are probably dying because of: poor government, limited food, limited eduactaion., a religion that tells them that death is a possitive thin gs that should be used on others (killing) , and the anger they have. and I opoligize If im stereo typing...\n\n~LG23~ (legend2300)
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Yes, things are getting stranger by the minute. How can our governments continue to give help to Afghanistan when they have such a barbaric system of law (Sharia)?  And not only should Christians be protesting, but so should Muslims, if they really believe it's a crime to kill someone for their beliefs.