«If the struggle
against violence done in the name of Islam is primarily spiritual, then defeating it requires a spiritual response.»
I repeat once more that I fully understand the insurrection of the oppressed who see no way out, who fight desperately
against the violence done them and will break loose from their chains the moment they can.
Not exact matches
(The paper noted police didn't consider
violence against real estate agents to be a significant issue in Toronto.)
Explains Clancy: «If someone rips you off or someone stiffs you on 50 kilos, [
do] you go out and
do an act of
violence against that guy and bring a bunch of heat on you and your organization?
During the hearing, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy brought up the company's role in the ongoing ethnic
violence in Myanmar, citing one incident where death threats
against a Muslim journalist
did not violate the platform's rules.
But while the protests
against gun
violence and perceived inaction by lawmakers grow, so
does the list of incidents involving schools.
That may seem like an unimportant thing to
do when you're fighting
against gun
violence, but it was one small thing that we could accomplish.
a suicide bomb act is
done as ritual), nevertheless the act of
violence itself is
done as reaction to something (corporal punishment), or as an attack
against someone or something.
I am an American non-practicing Muslim, who have never committed any acts of
violence against anyone and nor
do I plan to.
i don't need a book of fairy tales to know that
violence against women is unacceptable.
This doesn't give me any more or less authority to speak to
violence against women, but it
does give me proximity.
They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back
against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to
doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.
Yet
do you hear of any
violence against American Muslims sharing their faith?
It was my understanding that freedom of speech
does not extend to advocating
violence against other people, which is a crime no matter how unlikely such
violence would be.
Before these hypocrites start spouting off
against guns, perhaps they should first address all the
violence and murder in their holy book
done in their god's name.
I maintain that all kinds of
violence are the same the violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),
violence are the same the
violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),
violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic
violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),
violence — the
violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),
violence of the privileged proprietor
against his workers, of the «haves»
against the «have - nots»; the
violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),
violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the
violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),
violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [
Violence (Seabury, 1969),
Violence (Seabury, 1969), p. 97].
• Although COINTELPRO came to light in 1971 — with its disregard of First Amendment freedoms and its massive violations of federal and state statutes
against mail and wire fraud, incitement to
violence, extortion, and sending obscene material through the mail — the Justice Department
did not look into the program until 1974, and even then it uncovered no crimes.
Regardless, I
do not advocate
violence against or between the religious groups.
They saw that abortion was
violence against women by a society who
did not value women.
Bonhoeffer's reluctant involvement in the conspiracy
against Hitler certainly
does not provide unambiguous Christian justification for resorting to
violence and war.
Unless you're inciting
violence against specific individuals, I don't see why it must not be anonymous.
Why
does the Anglican Communion demote the one person who tried to quell the
violence against people in Uganda?
Doesn't anyone see what is coming — is it not obvious, war is coming, and it will be middle america
against these religious groups, and they already love
violence and know how to kil.
What I would like to see from the Mosque's Imam is a public, unequivocal statement that he
does not tolerate violent teachings or attacks
against Americans and issues a Fatwa forbidding any moral, monetary or logistical support for people planning or contemplating jihadist
violence.
And this is true not only of physical
violence — the
violence of the soldier who kills, the policeman who bludgeons, the rebel who commits arson, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic
violence — the
violence of the privileged proprietor
against his workers, of the «haves»
against the «have - nots»; the
violence done in international economic relations between our own societies and those of the Third World; the
violence done through powerful corporations which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself.
That would be a whole lot more convincing if the Quran was not so fraught with the advocacy of
violence against many who
do not accept it.
Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances:
against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world,
violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all,
against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.
He may, or may not, have believed that there would also be some divine intervention in human history, but he
did not support the use of
violence against the status quo.
Why
do some sects travel to other countries and incite
violence against people in the name of their particular interpretation?
The Irgun, in contrast,
did sometimes engage in attacks on innocents or indiscriminate attacks in their reprisals
against Arab
violence in the 1930s.
I don't because I know that many Muslim imams and organizations spoke out
against the
violence right after 9/11.
And he
did say that the use of
violence to impose religion is to act
against reason, and to act
against reason is to act
against the nature of God, for God has revealed himself as logos — the word and the reason by which all came to be and in which all coheres.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick
do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infide
do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families
against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're
against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (
Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Don't be confused about what so - called «conservatives» are: American domestic history is the unbroken story of people having to fight
against the right - wing for their most basic rights, usually in the face of
violence.
Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from
violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination
against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims
do to one another.
Elsewhere, Schüssler Fiorenza explains: No biblical patriarchal text that perpetuates
violence against women, children, or «slaves» should be accorded the status of divine revelation if we
do not want to turn the God of the Bible into a God of
violence.
How far Jesus himself would have extended this to wrongs
done to others, to
violence against others, or to political, economic, and social injustice is debatable.
It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they
did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that
did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of
violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were
doing it all «for the common good.»
I don't remember Jesus» Disciples being allowed to use
violence to defend themselves (or Jesus)
against their opponents.
But doesn't Islam preach
against violence, suicides etc. etc..
Would we condone
violence against the Christians who
did the same crap way back in the day?
How
do you plan to face the
violence against your nonviolence — with more
violence after your backs get pushed to the wall one too many times?
Christian theology
does not lack grounds upon which to stand
against sexual
violence and violation.
I was raised that you don't use physical
violence against women unless you are in serious physical danger.
We «fail to understand that in the murder of the Prophets people refused to acknowledge their own
violence and cast it off from themselves» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 159 - 160), which is exactly what the people
did when they crucified Jesus, and exactly what we
do today when we seek
violence against anyone else.
I
do reduce, abuse, mishandle, mistake in trying to make my own sense: a rip off artist, a crime
against the whole (a
violence: I admit it) But I'm dedicated.
Just because I won't use
violence against someone I disagree with doesn't meant there isn't someone else out there who will.
But He knows that by taking the blame upon Himself, He will hopefully stop the cycle of
violence from continuing, for while a person might retaliate in
violence against a violent neighbor, how
does one retaliate
against a violent God?
Sure the Bible is
against violence against women, but it doesn't exactly support
violence against men -
violence is
violence and shouldn't be committed
against people.
As a side note, I didn't explain the three story types very well, but based on my understanding, I don't put the death on the cross under redemptive
violence, unless it is God using
violence against Jesus, which isn't quite what happened on the cross...