{"id":50,"date":"2011-05-29T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-06-23T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T15:37:53","slug":"learning-from-our-muslim-friends-182002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Learning from our Muslim Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bray<br \/>\n8 January, 2002<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of all the daily bad news  ever blaring out of this post-Christian world, there occasionally sounds a note  of hope, reminding us that God\u2019s justice and the eventual dominion thereof can  be found in the most unsuspecting of places. Recently, we have grown to think  the Muslim variety, among our brothers in humanity, to be rather backward &#8211; even  &#8220;medieval&#8221; as some have recently described the citizens of  Afghanistan. We had come, prejudicially perhaps, to suspect Muslims of plotting  violence against us Americans in dark corners everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">And then the Lord, ever surprising us, ordained that justice  be demonstrated for the world right in the middle of the land of Islam. Three  sodomite heads rolled as the new year unfolded. Yes, on the first of January in  the year of our Lord 2002, the Saudis duly executed three perverts \u2013 two  Muhammads and an Ali according the AP report out of Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">While the Christians among us westerners would decline to  emulate our Muslim friends in many ways \u2013 i.e. preferring monogamy over  polygamy; requiring restitution rather than the excision of a hand for theft;  rejecting prohibition of alcohol \u2013 we can appreciate the justice they advocate  regarding sodomy. Might these fellows also consider an embryonic jihad?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Let us welcome these tools of purification. Open the borders!  Bring in some agents of cleansing. We have no standards of citizenship. Perhaps  the issue can be forced and we can get some discussion going.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, let us pray for justice: viz., that the heads  of adulterers, sodomites, murderers, child murderers (abortionists), witches,  traitors, and kidnappers roll.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday January 1 9:50 AM ET<br \/>\nThree Saudi Men Beheaded for Sodomy<\/p>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) &#8211; Three Saudi men were beheaded  Tuesday for committing acts of sodomy and &#8220;seducing young men,&#8221;Interior Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ali bin Hatan bin Saad, Muhammad bin Suleiman bin Muhammad and  Muhammad bin Khalil bin Abdullah were executed in the southwestern mountain  resort city of Abha in Asir province, according to the statement carried by the  official Saudi Press Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The three men &#8220;committed acts of sodomy, married each other,  seduced young men and attacked those who rebuked them,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The executions were the first this year in Saudi Arabia, where  beheadings are public and done with a sword. Last year, at least 81 people were  beheaded.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam and also  imposes the death penalty for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bray 8 January, 2002 In the midst of all the daily bad news ever blaring out of this post-Christian world, there occasionally sounds a note of hope, reminding us that God\u2019s justice and the eventual dominion thereof can be found in the most unsuspecting of places. Recently, we have grown to think the Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}