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As a Christian I believe that we are all precious in
God's mind and that to hurt any one is wrong whether they believe as we
do or not. We don't believe in killing anyone even if they try to kill
us first. Saying that, my question really is one of economics for
the mideast
region of the world where most of the oil dependent countries get their
fuel. We in American rely on that oil supply as do others. I do not
understand with all the multi millionaires over there, why they don't use
their wealth to help their own countries. Osama bin Laden is a good
example. Why
does he not use his money for the betterment of his fellow man as
opposed to the destruction of those who do not believe as he does? How much
better off would those countries be if those who have all the wealth
would use it for good!
With regard to the sanctity of human life, Islam and Christianity are
not too far apart. In the Qur'an we are told that whoever kills one
person unjustly, it is as if he killed all of humanity, and whoever
saves one person, it is as if he saved all of humanity. However, the
problem of the Third World does not stem simply from the lack of
individual charity (there are as many rich people in the Muslim
world involved in charitable acts as there are in America, just as
there are as many rich people in America not discharging their
social responsibility as there are in the Muslim world), nor can it be
resolved by individual generosity. The problem is that the Third
World is deeply indebted to the West through interest based
financing and is tightly controlled by the West through unpopular
military regimes. Since World War II American foreign policy is
responsible for over 8 million civilian deaths around the world
through war and various covert operations. As Martin Luther King
Jr. said during the Vietnam War: My government is the world's
leading purveyor of violence.
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