The UN blast was not about religion, I don't believe any of these attacks are truly about religion, they are politically motivated attacks. They are planned by Baathists and Saddam loyalists and greedy (mostly foreign) tribal and factional leaders, either angry at losing their lucrative tyranical hold over their countrymen or looking to gain new power over them and their resources, who manipulate corrupted Mullahs ("holy" men) to preach hatred to their flocks and encourage them to "martyrdom" by preying upon their loyalties to their faith, any "Just" Muslim will tell you two very important ideals of their practiced faith 1) Jihad (Holy War) is excercised only against enemies of the Islamic faith (we allow free religious practice, so we are no threat to Islamic faith) and only against combatants (killing of non-combatants is strictly forbidden by the Koran) 2) The encouragement of "martyrdom" and the personal want to become a "martyr" are selfish in nature and therefore void the reward of the afterlife, true martyrs are free from selfish thought and die in service to Islam fighting combatants in battle during a "true" Jihad. IMHO there is some honor in men fighting for the freedom to express and practice their beliefs without fear of oppression, but the men who instigate these attacks against non-combatants are themselves oppressors and therefore have NO honor, garner NO respect, illuminate themselves as the greedy selfish cowards they are and will ultimately lose! I am not myself Muslim but I count several as friends.
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