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nomii wrote:

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so i spend lots of time on muslim forums, and predictably, they're saying 1. most people killed at women and children (not true). 2. even hamas leaders are innocent or whatever.

E.g.:

http://muslimmatters.org/...ed-than-others/#more-2364

yesterday Israel succeeded in assassinating a professor of the University, Dr. Nizar Rayyan. Dr. Nizar was a professor of Hadith Studies at the Islamic Faculty, and had studied in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Sudan. He had been a volunteer Imam and khatib at a major Masjid in Gaza since 1985, and had been imprisoned and tortured numerous times (for a total of almost four years of his life). He was targeted because he was a 'senior figure in Hamas'.

The Israelis were so terrified of this one man, who probably weighed around two hundred pounds (Nomii note: Isn't there a starvation crisis in Gaza?), that they felt the need to drop a two thousand pound bomb on the apartment complex where he lived, killing him and eighteen other members of his family, including nine of his children. Men, women and children, murdered with unchecked savagery.

Dr. Nizar was clearly an advocate of military aggression against Israel, and also considered suicide bombings as a legitimate means of attack - a method that most other Muslim theologians and jurists (including myself) disapprove of. But regardless of what one thinks of the legitimacy of suicide attacks, such brutal violence against a professor and his entire family and innocent neighbors will undoubtedly generate more violence.