Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:20:33 -0700 (MST)
From: jammer <ha2957ja@uscolo.edu>
To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies <revs@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject:  The bombs (fwd)

Hi everyone!!1


I got this from aanother list and thought they are interesting....Care to 
comment please.....


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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:46:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Faraz Fareed Rabbani <frabbani@epas.utoronto.ca>
To: MSA-Net <msa-net@faith.mynet.net>
Subject: msa-net: (fwd) The bombs

Hdate: Sunday 20 SHawwal 1416 A.H.
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Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah

Assalamu alaikum,

This is an intelligent question:

From: zak@radiks.net (Tom Pastuszak)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: The bombs
Date: 6 Mar 1996 14:01:03 GMT

al-salam alaikum,

Car bombs, bus bombs, human bombs. Why aren't we talking about them?
Why aren't we talking about Hamas? We may disagree, or may agree, but
silence? Avoidance of these issues is not healthy.  We should not
shrug the task, and let slander pass. Perhaps we are afraid to let our
views be known. Perhaps we have become accustomed to lying low.

We should be talking about the bombs in Israel. Not about oral sex,
not minutiae of the religion, not yet another Christian theory about
Islam, the latest slam, the newest heresy. The bombs. 

Let us open the discussion:

1. Is Hamas justified in its actions?
2. Is Israel jusifified in its actions of destroying the homes of
suicide bombers?
3. Is Palestine in a state of war with Israel, and is Israel in a
state of war against Hamas - in essence, not based on recent public
declarations.
4. What actions are justifiable and which are not, depending on the
state of war?
5. Are there any Islamic justifications that can be used pro/con, both
ir any in support or against the actions of Hamas?
6. How closely affiliated are the bombers with Hamas?
7. Etc.

I open the floor for discussion, because the matter must be discussed.
We cannot be silent. 

Tom Pastuszak

--
Faraz Rabbani
frabbani@epas.utoronto.ca
	"Whosoever diggeth a pit shall fall in it."

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